Business & Economy

What Happened To Nigeria’s $20 Billion?

Nigeria is subliminally going through perilous times. Unfortunately, the factors responsible forthese conditions are dangerously explained away politically. The people are hit by mute...

Banks Are Not My Business

Whenever I see any bank and the ill-assorted characters called bankers in their foppish coats I suffer an extravagance of laughter. The Poet does not...

How Decisive Monetary Policy Is Powering Nigeria’s Economic Resilience and Growth

In an era marked by global economic volatility, few nations have demonstrated strength and foresight of Nigeria’s Central Bank and its Monetary Policy Committee...

Old Economic Voodooists’ Prescriptions in New Wine Skin

Here we go again, re-packaging, re-branding, renovating failed economic prescriptions for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by the same very intelligent people. They have...

Diary of An Unemployed Graduate (DOAUG)

The need to write this diary of an unemployed graduate (DOAUG) was necessitated because of the high level of unemployed graduates and the disparity...

Nigeria’s Economy Is In Recession

Every Nigerian now has to bear the brunt of a mismanaged economy courtesy of the Jonathan administration. If only we knew we wouldn’t be...

Economists, Politicians and the Rest of Us

It was Austin Erhabor, a colleague of mine, who forwarded Charles Soludo’s article titled “Buhari vs. Jonathan: Beyond the Election” to my email. When...

Who is this Charles Soludo?

By the grace of God who is the Almighty, all-knowing and the munificent, I and a lot more Nigerians know who Professor Charles Soludo...

Nigeria 2015: Are We Broke, Getting Broke or Going For Broke?

The news going round is that Nigeria is broke. I, for one, do not believe that fallacy. However, if the treasury is indeed empty...

Time To Probe Nigeria's $12bn Debt Repayment

With the return of democracy in 1999 it became obvious to those looting the country's economy using so called national debts that it wouldn't take long before Nigerians began to demand explanations for the country's debts...

Calculating Nigeria's Correct GDP

To an indolent mind, sexing data to pump up GDP figures is an example of how politicians lie with statistics. But a critical mind will see the ingenuity in such an expansion of the base of the estimates that make up a country’s GDP, as such illicit activities as smuggling, child trafficking, prostitution, drug trafficking and corrupt practices are part of the underbelly of every modern society...

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Politics In a Time of Bankruptcy

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This Government Is Throwing Up Stones!

Nigeria's long suffering people are all too frequently caught in the crossfire of rampaging wars, millions afflicted with diseases, preyed upon by greedy despots and prevented by corrupt leaders and bureaucracies in a kleptocracy from obtaining basic schooling, medical attention, and any semblance of economic opportunities...

The Ndi-igbo I Know And Osuji’s Hypotheses

The Igbos, according to Osuji are “selfish and greedy”. These are symptoms of the cankerworm called neo-colonial capitalism and capitalist practices...

Our Economy: Assuming We Didn’t Have Oil

For our leadership to Create a competitive business environment that fosters investment and economic growth the Government should define the rules and parameters that guide and influence the development of business…

Want Blacks Out of Europe and America? Get non-Blacks out of sub-Saharan Africa

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The International Politics of Petrol

The United States of America is seen rightly or wrongly by not a few nations as an international bully, a military, political and economic bully...

Psalm 37: The Wicked and the Awesomeness of God

In order to assist man to understand the consequences of wickedness and move on in life, the Psalmist has portrayed the dire consequences of wickedness...

Team Nigeria: A Perspective

Events of the recent past, have demonstrated the immutable fact that Nigerians need national unity, and for that purpose, Nigerians urgently must jettison petty family squabbles...

Five Big Problems I Have With Nigerian “Pastors”

(1). A woman called her cousin in a neighboring...