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The cost of Nigeria (2) — Nigeria’s Expensive Constitution: The High Cost of Governing the State

Nigeria’s rising poverty crisis is not only about inflation, fuel prices or exchange rates. Beneath the economic turbulence lies a deeper structural problem: the cost of running the Nigerian state itself. When economists discuss Nigeria’s poverty surge—now estimated to affect roughly six out of every ten Nigerians—the conversation usually begins with inflation, food prices, fuel Read More…