The Missing Billions, Aug. 6 -- How the South-East Slept Through the Investment Heist

It was just another morning, calm as ever, when the numbers dropped. Nothing unusual, just another report from Nigeria's Bureau of Statistics. Except this one landed like a bullet through the window.

Abuja pulled in $3.05 billion. Lagos followed with $2.56 billion.Total capital importation for Q1 2025. The rest of the country? Peanuts. And the South-East?Dead silent. Not a kobo.

That's right. Not one cent of foreign direct investment. Not toAnambra, notAbia, notImo, notEbonyi, not evenEnugu.

No alarms went off. No pressers. No strategy meetings. Just silence-like a town where everyone heard the gunshot, but nobody's willing to say who pulled the trig...