Emeka Chiakwelu

Emeka Chiakwelu is the Principal Policy Strategist at Afripol Organization. Africa Political and Economic Strategic Center (Afripol) is foremost a public policy center whose fundamental objective is to broaden the parameters of public policy debates in Africa. To advocate, promote and encourage free enterprise, democracy, sustainable green environment, human rights, conflict resolutions, transparency and probity in Africa. http://afripol.org.  strategist@afripol.org

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According to the Domestic Macroeconomic and Financial Developments issued by Sanusi's Central Bank of Nigeria, the "real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 8.68 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 6.64, 7.72, and 7.40 per cent in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarters respectively...

IMF role in the recent fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria

No matter how the Nigerian economic team chooses to shade, equivocate or obfuscate it, the International Monetary Fund played a significant role, if not an upper hand, in the removal of fuel subsidy in poverty stricken Nigeria...

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