By Seun Sylvester | The Turnaround Papers | August 19, 2026
The Turnaround Papers — No. 5 Credit Line, Not Cash: Ending the Politics of the One-Time Handout Every election season, the same scene repeats itself somewhere in Nigeria. A politician stands on a raised platform, a market association has been assembled, and envelopes or bank alerts of ₦20,000, ₦50,000, ₦75,000…
By Seun Sylvester | The Turnaround Papers | August 4, 2026
Every Nigerian knows this road. It was commissioned with fanfare eighteen months ago. A governor cut a ribbon. There were photographs, a brass band, promises about how this road would transform the community. Today it is craters and dust, and the same community that cheered its opening is now cursing its collapse. We tend to…
By Seun Sylvester | The Turnaround Papers | July 30, 2026
A farmer in Odeda owns eight acres his family has held for four generations. A trader in Sango-Ota owns the shop she has traded from for nineteen years. A civil servant in Abeokuta owns the bungalow he built with thirty years of savings. None of them owns anything a bank will look at. They have…
By Seun Sylvester | The Turnaround Papers | July 27, 2026
There is a silent tax on every Nigerian farmer. It is not collected by any government. It appears on no receipt. Yet it takes roughly forty kobo out of every naira a farmer grows. It is called post-harvest loss. Nigeria loses an estimated 40–50% of its perishable produce [tomatoes, peppers, leafy vegetables, fruits, fish] between…
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