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The Lagos property market is undergoing a significant transition, creating a fresh wave of opportunities for local and international investors despite prevailing macroeconomic headwinds. According to market analysts and industry reports, the demand for high-quality residential and commercial spaces remains robust, driven by urbanisation, a growing middle class, and a strategic shift toward peripheral locations.

Residents across several communities in Lagos State have raised an alarm over a total power blackout that has persisted for 10 months, severely disrupting socio-economic activities and personal livelihoods. Reports indicate that the outage, which began in early 2025, has left hundreds of households and small-scale enterprises in darkness, with no definitive timeline for restoration from the relevant electricity distribution companies (DisCos).

The WSJ just reported the highest price ever paid for modern art at auction.

While equities, gold, bitcoin hover near highs, the art market is showing signs of early recovery after one of the longest downturns since the 1990s.

Here’s where it gets interesting→

Each investing environment is unique, but after the dot com crash, contemporary and post-war art grew ~24% a year for a decade, and after 2008, it grew ~11% annually for 12 years.*

Overall, the segment has outpaced the S&P by 15 percent with near-zero correlation from 1995 to 2025.

Now, Masterworks lets you invest in shares of artworks featuring legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso. Since 2019, investors have deployed $1.25 billion across 500+ artworks.

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_{*Per Masterworks data. Investing involves risk. Past performance not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd}

The Imo State Government has issued a 14-day ultimatum to owners of illegal structures erected under high-tension power lines in the Owerri North Local Government Area. The directive, announced on 19 January 2026, targets buildings and shanties situated within the protected right-of-way (RoW) of the 330kV national grid transmission line, which connects the Alaoji Transmission Station to the Egbu Transmission Station in Owerri.

The Lagos State Government has officially announced a traffic diversion plan for the Lagos-Badagry Expressway scheduled to last for 18 weeks, starting from Monday, 19 January 2026. This measure is necessary to facilitate the repair and maintenance of the bridge at the Iyana-Iba interchange, ensuring the structural integrity of this critical transport corridor.

Vanguard just projected public markets may return only 5% annually over the next decade. In a 2024 report, Goldman Sachs forecasted the S&P 500 may return just 3% annually for the same time frame—stats that put current valuations in the 7th percentile of history.

Translation? The gains we’ve seen over the past few years might not continue for quite a while.

Meanwhile, another asset class—almost entirely uncorrelated to the S&P 500 historically—has overall outpaced it for decades (1995-2024), according to Masterworks data.

Masterworks lets everyday investors invest in shares of multimillion-dollar artworks by legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso.

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Vice President Kashim Shettima is set to represent Nigeria at the 56th World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, where he will present the nation’s 2026 economic outlook to global leaders and investors. The Vice President’s participation aims to showcase Nigeria’s recent macroeconomic reforms and signal the country’s readiness for increased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) across key sectors including energy, digital economy, and agriculture.

A recent study by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reveals a significant shift in consumer and merchant behavior as small-scale traders and business owners increasingly priorities cash payments over bank transfers. This trend emerged following the official commencement of the 2026 tax regime on 1 January 2026, which introduced several structural changes to transaction levies and digital oversight.

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