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How Nigeria’s new retail class is turning local production into market power – Businessday NG
Trump hit with 3 crucial ‘reality checks’ needed to fix his global disaster
Rent controls: The left hand doesn’t know what the far-left hand is doing
Nigeria’s import bill: which sectors gain from new tariff changes – Businessday NG
‘A day of reckoning coming’ as Trump’s attempt at damage control backfires: analysis
Labour peer tells Reeves not to use headroom as ‘piggy bank’ for spending
Eurobond rally driven by mid-term bets as investors shun near-term risk – Businessday NG
Trump scheme to pay off Iran war is ‘worst possible scenario for Republicans’: DC insiders
Economy could suffer for eight months after Iran war ends, minister says
US woos Nigerian agro-importers with restored credit guarantee – Businessday NG
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How Nigeria’s new retail class is turning local production into market power – Businessday NG Trump hit with 3 crucial ‘reality checks’ needed to fix his global disaster Rent controls: The left hand doesn’t know what the far-left hand is doing Nigeria’s import bill: which sectors gain from new tariff changes – Businessday NG ‘A day of reckoning coming’ as Trump’s attempt at damage control backfires: analysis Labour peer tells Reeves not to use headroom as ‘piggy bank’ for spending Eurobond rally driven by mid-term bets as investors shun near-term risk – Businessday NG Trump scheme to pay off Iran war is ‘worst possible scenario for Republicans’: DC insiders Economy could suffer for eight months after Iran war ends, minister says US woos Nigerian agro-importers with restored credit guarantee – Businessday NG
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How Nigeria’s new retail class is turning local production into market power – Businessday NG

How Nigeria’s new retail class is turning local production into market power – Businessday NG

On a humid Friday evening in Lekki, a young professional stands in the aisle of a neighbourhood store, scanning labels with unusual care. She picks up a jar of peanut butter. Puts it back. Reaches for another – this one locally made, with a simpler label, a slightly lower price. Into the basket it goes.

Apr
2026
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Trump hit with 3 crucial ‘reality checks’ needed to fix his global disaster

Trump hit with 3 crucial ‘reality checks’ needed to fix his global disaster

President Donald Trump’s Iran war has spiraled into a global economic disaster, and despite his claims, the “myth” that he is acting strategically is fading fast. A new breakdown from MS NOW revealed the three “reality checks” that the president will need to accept to even have the hope of fixing his own mess. Writing

Apr
2026
29

Rent controls: The left hand doesn’t know what the far-left hand is doing

Rent controls: The left hand doesn’t know what the far-left hand is doing

Wednesday 29 April 2026 5:49 am  |   Updated:  Tuesday 28 April 2026 6:09 pm Rachel Reeves has been flirting with rent controls. Carl Court/PA Wire For just under 24 hours the residential landlord sector was seized by panic following reports that first appeared on Monday night that the Chancellor was preparing to impose a ‘temporary’

Apr
2026
29

Nigeria’s import bill: which sectors gain from new tariff changes – Businessday NG

Nigeria’s import bill: which sectors gain from new tariff changes – Businessday NG

Nigeria’s revised 2026 tariff framework is set to reshape the country’s import bill, with industrial, food, and transport-related sectors emerging as the primary beneficiaries of sweeping duty reductions, while manufactured goods face tighter protection under a contrasting increase in tariffs. A report by the Financial Market Dealers Association (FMDA) shows that the new tariff regime

Apr
2026
28

‘A day of reckoning coming’ as Trump’s attempt at damage control backfires: analysis

‘A day of reckoning coming’ as Trump’s attempt at damage control backfires: analysis

Major economists, from former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman to Justin Wolfers at the University of Michigan, are warning that the longer U.S. President Donald Trump’s war with Iran drags on, the harder it will hit American consumers. According to Krugman, higher oil prices will make a wide range of goods more expensive —

Apr
2026
28

Labour peer tells Reeves not to use headroom as ‘piggy bank’ for spending

Labour peer tells Reeves not to use headroom as ‘piggy bank’ for spending

Tuesday 28 April 2026 12:02 am  |   Updated:  Monday 27 April 2026 5:28 pm Reeves left just £9.9bn in headroom after her first Budget. A Labour peer has urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to avoid using her larger fiscal headroom as a “piggy bank” to fund extra government spending increases.  A report by senior House of

Apr
2026
28

Eurobond rally driven by mid-term bets as investors shun near-term risk – Businessday NG

Eurobond rally driven by mid-term bets as investors shun near-term risk – Businessday NG

Nigeria’s Eurobond market extended its bullish momentum this week, with average yields declining by 6 basis points to 6.89 percent from 6.96 percent, as renewed investor demand lifted prices across maturities. The drop in yields signals a strengthening appetite for Nigerian sovereign debt in the international market, as investors increased purchases of existing bonds, pushing

Apr
2026
27

Trump scheme to pay off Iran war is ‘worst possible scenario for Republicans’: DC insiders

Trump scheme to pay off Iran war is ‘worst possible scenario for Republicans’: DC insiders

President Donald Trump and his Department of Defense appear to have a strategy to get Congress to pay off his costly war with Iran, according to the hosts of Pod Save America, but it is a plan that could turn into the “worst possible scenario for Republicans” heading into the midterms. During the Friday episode

Apr
2026
27

Economy could suffer for eight months after Iran war ends, minister says

Economy could suffer for eight months after Iran war ends, minister says

Sunday 26 April 2026 11:54 am Darren Jones said price rises could last for “eight-plus months” Surging food and energy prices caused by the Iran war could last for more than eight months after the conflict ends, Starmer’s right-hand man has said.  Higher petrol, food and plane ticket prices will persist for “eight-plus months” following

Apr
2026
27

US woos Nigerian agro-importers with restored credit guarantee – Businessday NG

US woos Nigerian agro-importers with restored credit guarantee – Businessday NG

The United States has restored a government-backed credit guarantee to attract Nigerian agro-importers, capitalising on an 84 percent growth in agricultural trade between the two countries In Lagos on Friday, officials said Nigerian banks regained access to the US Department of Agriculture’s GSM-102 program in late 2025, enabling financing for importers seeking American agricultural inputs.