The Desk — Finance, Policy & the View from the Street By Kemi Adeosun
What the IMF’s 2026 Nigeria report says about us — and what it would take to make the patient actually feel it
Picture a man who has just left his cardiologist. Blood pressure down, cholesterol down, the arrhythmia that nearly killed him three years ago stabilised by months of disciplined treatment. The doctor is pleased.
He walks out and still feels terrible. His chest is tight. He is exhausted by the time he climbs the stairs. He cannot understand how the chart says he is recovering when his body insists otherwise.
This is, more or less, the conversation Nigeria has just had with the IMF.
