Lagos Tops Nigeria’s 2025 Governance Rankings as Ogun, Kaduna Surge

New performance index highlights governance leaders, exposes laggards ahead of 2027 political cycle Lagos State has emerged as Nigeria’s best-performing state in the 2025 Phillips Consulting State Performance Index (pSPI), with Ogun and Kaduna securing second and third positions respectively in one of the country’s most comprehensive assessments of subnational governance. The ranking, which evaluated

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THE STOCK MARKET PARADOX: WHY NIGERIA’S BOOM IS NOT YET A PEOPLE’S PROSPERITY

Record market gains, record revenues, record poverty. Nigeria’s economy is growing, but too many Nigerians are not. The trading floor is celebrating. The Nigerian Exchange has become one of Africa’s strongest-performing stock markets. The All-Share Index has surged to historic highs. Market capitalisation has crossed ₦160 trillion. Banking stocks have soared. Telecommunications companies are reporting

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The Great Telecom Betrayal: Nigerians Pay More for poor network

Nigeria’s telecom subscribers are paying significantly higher prices for calls, data and digital services, yet network failures, dropped calls, slow internet speeds and recurring outages remain widespread. A new TMN investigation reveals how chronic infrastructure damage, weak regulatory enforcement and rising operational costs have combined to create a troubling reality: millions of Nigerians are spending more to stay connected while receiving increasingly unreliable service. As the country’s digital economy expands, the growing gap between tariffs and quality is emerging as one of Nigeria’s most consequential economic and development challenges.

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THE $300 BILLION QUESTION: PEACE, POWER, AND THE PRICE OF CONFLICT

By TMN World Affairs Desk In international politics, numbers often tell stories. Sometimes they tell the truth. Sometimes they tell aspirations. And sometimes they reveal the distance between diplomacy and reality. The reported proposal for a $300 billion United States-backed economic package for Iran has become one of the most debated geopolitical developments of recent

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FG, FMBN Promise Affordable Housing Relief For Civil Servants Nationwide

Federal Workers To Get Support For Rent, House Renovation And Home Ownership ABUJA, NIGERIA The Federal Government and the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) have signed a N10 billion agreement to help federal civil servants get better access to affordable housing across the country. The new housing package is expected to support workers with

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NCDC WARNS OF EBOLA RISK As International Travel Raises Concern In Lagos, Abuja

LAGOS, NIGERIA  Nigerian health authorities have placed Lagos, Abuja, Kano and seven other states on high alert following fears that the Ebola virus outbreak currently spreading in parts of Central and East Africa could enter the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) announced on Thursday that it has increased disease monitoring

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Terrorism Has Reduced Significantly in Nigeria — Defence Minister Musa

ABUJA, NIGERIA Nigeria’s Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, says the country has made serious progress in the fight against terrorism and violent crimes, even though insecurity has not completely ended in some parts of the country. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television on Friday, Musa said terrorist activities have reduced greatly compared to what

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