WES 2025: Economist sees Nigeria's productivity challenge as human tragedy and defining opportunity Nigeria’s low productivity has become both a human tragedy and a historic opportunity for transformation, according to Dr. Abidemi C. Adegboye of the University of Lagos, who spoke on Friday at the 2025 WorldStage Economic Summit (WES) in Lagos. Delivering a keynote address on the theme “Tackling the Issue of Low Productivity in Nigeria,” Dr. Adegboye said Nigeria can reverse decades of stagnation if political will, private sector leadership and coordinated policy reforms converge to harness its demographic...