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Nigeria cannot secure its future without early childhood investment, By Hope Lekwa Omei Bongos

Reported by Premium Times on 27 May 2026. Read the summary below, then continue to the full story.

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Nigeria’s spending of less than ₦500 per child per day investment is not a minor budget line. It captures a deeper contradiction between long-term growth ambition and underinvestment in the foundation of that growth. The consequence is not immediate collapse, but sustained underperformance: lower productivity, weaker human capital formation, and a growing gap between demographic [] The post Nigeri

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