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Nigeria

  • September 23 2025
    Nigeria cuts interest rates for first time in five years
    First reduction since Covid-19 pandemic comes amid falling inflation and stabilisation of the naira
    2 hours ago
    A street vendor balances a large container on her head while walking past an outdoor market with furniture and plants under high voltage power lines.
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    The filmmaker brothers putting African cinema on an international stage
    Akinola Davies Jr and Wale Davies brought Lagos to the Cannes Film Festival. Next step, the world
    Akinola Davies Jr (left) and Wale Davies at Somerset House, London
  • September 1 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Five of the best eateries in Lagos, by restaurateur Aji Akokomi
    Where the pioneer who helped put west African cuisine on London’s fine-dining map likes to eat in the Nigerian megacity
  • August 31 2025
    African politics
    Nigeria enters campaign mode — with elections two years away
    Opposition leaders announce alliances and President Bola Tinubu’s party blankets roads with posters ahead of 2027 polls
    A campaign poster featuring Bola Tinubu
  • August 17 2025
    News in-depth
    Nigeria’s factories go local to survive currency turmoil
    After second devaluation of the naira, manufacturers overhauled supply chains to source more materials domestically
    A quality control inspector wearing safety gear examines clear glass bottles on a conveyor belt in a bottle factory
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  • July 23 2025
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    Big Pharma’s China gamble
    Despite looming tariffs, global pharma companies rely on Chinese biotech
  • July 22 2025
    Nigeria’s economy 30% bigger after GDP recalculation
    First statistical rejig in more than a decade makes debt ratios appear healthier
    A worker ties up pepper plants in a greenhouse
  • July 16 2025
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    Exploring Lekki, Lagos’s most dynamic district
    Author and social critic Minna Salami on the allure of a cosmopolitan urban hub that, despite its rapid expansion, still manages to keep it real
    Minna Salami wearing a grey polo neck and sitting on a wooden armchair
  • July 14 2025
    ObituaryMuhammadu Buhari
    Muhammadu Buhari, former Nigerian president, 1942-2025
    Ex-junta ruler embodied country’s transition from authoritarian state to modern democracy
    Muhammadu Buhari in 2015
  • July 14 2025
    OutlookAanu Adeoye
    Lagos is surrounded by water — so where are all the beaches?
    Lack of free access illustrates the way in which the city is squeezing its poorest residents
    Ilashe Beach
  • July 13 2025
    Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari dies
    Ex-junta leader oversaw a period of increasing insecurity in west African state during his two presidential terms
    On February 23 2019, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari speaks to the media after casting his vote in his hometown of Daura, in northern Nigeria
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  • July 11 2025
    Global migration
    US pressed African countries to take in Venezuelan deportees, Nigeria says
    ‘We have enough problems of our own,’ says foreign minister after US president’s push for ‘safe, third-country agreements’
    Salvadoran police officers, wearing black masks and uniforms marked "DGCP," escort several handcuffed individuals in white prison attire through a detention facility.
  • June 27 2025
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    Labour MPs rebel against UK welfare reform
    Labour MPs revolt against Keir Starmer over proposed cuts
  • June 21 2025
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    The football betting influencers behind Nigeria’s not-so secret gambling boom
    Once frowned upon, gambling online has grown in popularity as people’s economic woes deepen
    A large crowd of Nigerian football fans watches a match with tense and animated expressions, some holding their heads in disbelief outside a local shop
  • June 18 2025
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    Tips from the top: an arty Saturday in Lagos with author and publisher Toni Kan
    Where the creative dynamo goes to take in some art, source vintage vinyl and catch a concert — and his favourite places to dine and drink en route
    Toni Kan at Freedom Park, Lagos
  • June 11 2025
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    Frida Orupabo: ‘How we construct and understand race is so subtle’
    The Norwegian artist’s enigmatic, unsettling collages — often drawing on historical images — reconsider stereotypes
    A woman in a black dress next to images from photo montages
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  • June 5 2025
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest-Growing Companies
    Lagos offers start-ups ‘immediate scale’ but challenges remain
    Nigeria’s economic capital is one of Africa’s leading tech hubs but its crown is showing signs of slipping
    Traffic on an African city highway with modern office blocks in the background
  • May 30 2025
    Nigeria cracks down on ‘spraying’ money at parties to defend currency
    Authorities are jailing people for throwing cash at parties after 70% fall in naira’s value over two years
    A man ‘sprays’ currency notes to honour the Ijaw’s biggest masquerade Amaseikumor
  • May 12 2025
    Oil & Gas industry
    The Nigerian companies leading historic shift in oil wealth ownership
    Local producers are stepping in to fill the gap vacated by foreign majors retreating from Africa’s largest producer
    Oil platform in Lagos, Nigeria
  • April 27 2025
    Nigeria’s spiralling rural violence heaps pressure on president
    US conservatives urge White House to penalise country over what they claim are targeted attacks against Christians
    People attend the funeral of a man that was killed following an attack by gunmen in the Zike farming community in north-central Nigeria
  • April 6 2025
    African companies
    Boss of Seplat wants to ‘demystify’ Nigeria for investors
    Roger Brown says discount on major oil producer’s shares is unwarranted
  • April 2 2025
    Nigerian National Petroleum Corp
    Nigeria appoints former Shell executive to lead state-owned oil group
    President Bola Tinubu replaces NNPC board as country tries to boost production
    Cars are lined up at an NNPC Mega petrol station, with several vehicles waiting to refuel and attendants in yellow uniforms serving customers at the pumps
  • March 27 2025
    Nigeria’s exploding oil pipelines spark national political crisis
    President accused of over-reach after he ousted state government in wake of apparent sabotage
    Gas-flaring furnaces seen from a distance
  • March 18 2025
    Bet on Nigerian recovery draws investors seeking to dodge trade wars
    Africa’s most populous country among former crisis-hit economies attracting foreign inflows
    A customer exchanges Nigerian 1000 Naira banknotes for US dollar banknotes with a street currency dealer at a market in Lagos, Nigeria
  • March 15 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Welcome to Nollywood, the Lagos-born movie universe
    The accidental origins, rise, decline and resurgence of Nigeria’s vast and vibrant film industry
    Genevieve Nnaji standing in front a crowd of people in a scene from ‘Lionheart’
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