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  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Labour MPs rebel against UK welfare reform

    Labour MPs revolt against Keir Starmer over proposed cuts

  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
    FT Magazine
    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
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    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
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Art Basel 2025
    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
  • Thursday, 5 June, 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
  • Friday, 30 May, 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
  • Monday, 12 May, 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
  • Sunday, 27 April, 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
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    African companies
    Boss of Seplat wants to ‘demystify’ Nigeria for investors

    Roger Brown says discount on major oil producer’s shares is unwarranted

  • Wednesday, 2 April, 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
  • Thursday, 27 March, 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
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 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
  • Saturday, 15 March, 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’
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Inside Lagos’s top private members’ clubs

    An exclusive tour of the establishments favoured by the city’s executives and power brokers

    Three polo players on their horses at Lagos Polo Club
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Tips from the top: Iré Hassan- Odukale’s favourite Lagos eateries

    The Lagos-born co-founder of the acclaimed London restaurant Ikoyi shares his top addresses

    Lagos-born chef Iré Hassan-Odukale
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Lagos business etiquette: the dos and don’ts

    How to navigate everything from greetings to meetings to dress code in the Nigerian megacity

    A vibrant, stylised illustration depicting silhouetted figures in a mix of bold, geometric shapes and bright colours, evoking a lively social gathering
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Energy Source
    How Nigeria’s Dangote refinery is fuelling a petrol price war Premium content

    The economic case for cutting prices tells only half the story

    A fuel attendant fills a container with fuel for a customer at a Nigerian National Petroleum Company gas station
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Power dining in Lagos: an insider guide

    The restaurants that really mean business in west Africa’s finance hub

    Diners in Lagos’s SLoW restaurant
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Lagos with the FT

    The joys of Nigeria’s bustling beachside hub

  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Tips from the top: novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s favourite Lagos bookshops

    The award-winning author takes us on a bibliophile’s tour of her hometown

    Novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Ruchir Sharma
    The new economic stars born through crisis 

    Financial stress is forcing reform and recovery in many overlooked countries 

    Desalter tanks and pipework at the Dangote Industries Ltd. oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in the Ibeju Lekki district of Lagos, Nigeria
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Tefaf Maastricht 2025
    African modernists have been unjustly overlooked — until now

    A presentation of mostly 20th-century Nigerian pioneers at Tefaf in Maastricht rides a wave of global recognition

    Vibrant painted faces emerging from colourful columns and orbs in red, blue and green
  • Monday, 27 January, 2025
    Nigeria’s plan to boost delta drilling sparks anger

    Campaigners rally against effort to revive Ogoniland production over legacy of environmental destruction

    A man walks near spilled crude oil in the village of Bodo in Ogoniland in 2010
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Seplat Energy Plc
    Nigeria’s Seplat moves in to fill gap as foreign oil companies retreat

    Buyer of ExxonMobil’s assets in the west African country wants to double production within six months

    Two workers in blue overalls and white helmets are operating machinery at an industrial site.
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Nigeria tax spat opens country’s smouldering north-south divide

    Critics warn President Bola Tinubu’s proposed changes to VAT distribution will help wealthier southern states

    People walk past the Nigerian National Assembly
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