In the sprawling maze of Alaba International Market in Lagos, where the hum of generators mingles with the urgent calls of traders hawking everything from electronics to textiles, Nigeria's economic paradox plays out in real time. Here, as in countless markets across the nation's 36 states, millions of entrepreneurs embody a contradiction that has come to define Africa's largest economy: extraordinary resilience coupled with profound vulnerability. The latest Moniepoint Informal Economy Report illuminates this paradox with uncomfortable precisi
In the sprawling maze of Alaba International Market in Lagos, where the hum of generators mingles with the urgent calls of traders hawking everything from electronics to textiles, Nigeria's economic paradox plays out in real time. Here, as in countless markets across the nation's 36 states, millions of entrepreneurs embody a contradiction that has come to define Africa's largest economy: extraordinary resilience coupled with profound vulnerability. The latest Moniepoint Informal Economy Report illuminates this paradox with uncomfortable precisi