19/03/2026
The $1 trillion economy in motion.
That phrase captures something real about where Nigeria is right now. Not at the destination, but genuinely on the road, and further along that road than the conversation outside Nigeria has tended to acknowledge.
The last two years involved decisions that cost people something: fuel subsidy removal, exchange rate unification, and monetary policy tightening that pushed rates higher before they could come down. The FATF grey list exit, which matters more than most non-finance people realise, quietly restored relationships with the global financial system that had been complicated for years.
Those reforms changed what conversation Nigeria is able to have internationally. On Tuesday, at The Peninsula London, the discussion was not about potential. It was about pipeline, about where the money goes, how it is structured, and what it builds over the next decade.
This is what the $1 trillion economy looks like in motion. 🇳🇬