Shafiu Ibrahim Abdullah

As one of the fastest growing economies on the continent, Nigeria a needs stable atmosphere to continue with its higher economic growth rate and for it to achieve its vision 2020:20 targets...

Like most other stock markets around the world, Nigerian stock exchange was devastated by the global financial crisis of 2008. But unlike many that have already recovered, the recovery of the NSE is taking time. In fact some pessimists see the situation as if the market will never recover to its pre-crisis level...

Despite the Indian resort to the family way of running business, some of the most successful family businesses in the country are run by family members with MBAs...

Over the last few days, Nigeria has found herself in a very unique conundrum, a situation that calls for reflections especially on the part of the Nigerian leadership...

As promised by this administration in the 2011, that starting from January 1, 2012 fuel subsidy will be removed, that prediction has come and gone. Monday January 2, 2012, Nigerians woke up to find that fuel pump price has been increased...

Allocating 72% of the budget to recurrent expenditure seems to me very outrageous, and a move away from the government mantra of fiscal prudence. Though, as one analyst observes, it is not easy to cut recurrent expenditure in one fell swoop...

Very soon we will start to see Nigerian papers charging for some aspect of their online news, despite the not so successful experimentation of the Punch Newspaper. But as we are witnessing now, competition for online advert will intensify concurrently with that of the print paper...

Despite the poor research and innovation capability of our present set of universities, incessant strike will continue to jeopardize the little research they are undertaking...