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Does Sport Matter?
Why Nigeria should aim to be a sports power
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Feyi Fawehinmi
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Big but not Mighty
A short note on the persistence of import substitution in Nigeria
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Tobi Lawson
The Cult of Import Substitution
How a focus on import substitution can be so damaging for a country's development
 • 
Feyi Fawehinmi
3
Choose Your Champions Wisely
The importance of domestic champions to economic development means it is very important to get them right
 • 
Tobi Lawson
2

July 2024

Who Could Have Predicted This?
Meet the new domestic crude oil plan, same as the old one
 • 
Feyi Fawehinmi
14
The Dangote Freakout
Dangote's problems have nothing to do with importers
 • 
Feyi Fawehinmi
12

June 2024

Doctors Without Borders
Nigeria is producing something cheaply and exporting it. So what's the problem?
 • 
Feyi Fawehinmi
7
Wither Non-consumption
Why betting on the patience of big firms is not a development strategy
 • 
Tobi Lawson
1

May 2024

One Person's Job
Nigeria has a choice to make on manufacturing strategy
 • 
Feyi Fawehinmi
The Broken Ladder
Trade, development, and how China might be undermining Africa's growth.
 • 
Tobi Lawson
1
Binance and Nigeria
News broke a few days ago about Nigerian officials allegedly demanding bribes of $150m from Binance earlier this year.
 • 
Feyi Fawehinmi

April 2024

Band of Bother
The trouble with Nigeria's electricity sector that higher tariffs can't seem to fix
 • 
Feyi Fawehinmi
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