Odilim Enwegbara

Nations always compete fiercer than businesses compete. Doing everything to scuffle and derail potential challengers, has been the rule of the game. For nations ahead in the game, they take the battle to potential attacker's territory...

Streamlining our unheard-of 541 agencies and departments, especially with many just duplication, should be done immediately. It's time to implement the white paper on the Ahmed Joda Panel Reported on the Review, Harmonization and Agencies lost in the archives since 2000...

Today, Nigeria is in a hell of crisis. It's on a debt-based life-support. Over half of its employable workforce is unemployed. The accompanying social dislocations are increasingly beyond its carrying capacity...

Increasingly loading the country with huge unproductive debts, sooner rather than later, ours will become a junk economy. The danger with the debt-trap is that as soon as a nation is inside, it becomes much easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle...

Should a nation as vastly endowed with oil wealth as Nigeria continue using lanterns and candles in powering its development, or remain in darkness when it should have used a fraction of its 40 billion barrels of oil reserves...

The question everyone seems to be asking endlessly is: how could Brazil have risen so fast it is not only beating Britain as the world's sixth largest economy, but also about beating France as the world's fifth largest economy before the end of 2012?

Because Nigerians have no culture of carrying coins, CBN's idea of temporarily allowing N5, N10, and N20 notes and coins to circulate side-by-side should be made permanent. This is because in increasingly modern economy like ours, both the note and coin have specific roles in aiding financial transactions...

Confronted with stagnating domestic markets, declining absolute profits, and the need to evacuate  redundant dollars overseas, the Rockefeller-led neoliberal globalists believed it was time for global economic restructuring in a way that would break down all barriers to international trade and investment...