At 4:30 a.m., while much of Lagos is still asleep, Taye Bamgbade is already working. The 48-year-old banker leaves home before dawn and turns his car into a taxi on the way to Victoria Island, picking up passengers to help offset the fuel costs of getting to work. His salary has not disappeared. Its purchasing power has. Across Nigeria, millions of households are confronting the same reality. The job still exists. The income no longer stretches. For decades, the Nigerian household was built around a simple assumption: one stable salary co
At 4:30 a.m., while much of Lagos is still asleep, Taye Bamgbade is already working. The 48-year-old banker leaves home before dawn and turns his car into a taxi on the way to Victoria Island, picking up passengers to help offset the fuel costs of getting to work. His salary has not disappeared. Its purchasing power has. Across
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