Nigeria, Dec. 29 -- In the next forty-eight hours, the world would bid goodbye to the year 2025 and usher in a New Year. As it is our practice, The Discourse will today, review the outgoing year, point out areas of progress in our national life, and offer suggestions on what we can do better to make life more meaningful for Nigerians.

At the beginning of 2025, the economy was still weighed down by high inflation, elevated interest rates, and weak consumer demand due to the high prices of goods, especially food items, as well as subdued business activity following subsidy removal, exchange-rate liberalisation, and aggressive monetary tightening policies embarked upon by the Tinubu administration.

Inflation remained one of the defining ch...