What’s left for Tinubu: A legacy to sustain, a name to behold

Since his inauguration on May 29, 2023, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has scrapped the fuel subsidy, unified the foreign-exchange market, cleared billions of dollars in unpaid obligations and ended the Central Bank’s inflationary Ways and Means financing of government. These steps addressed an economy strained by fuel subsidies, multiple exchange rates, debt-service costs approaching 97 percent of revenue and pressure on external reserves. The editorial argues that the challenge now is to turn the painful reforms into lasting improvements, despite criticism of their sequencing, communication and human cost.