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...

Time for Nigeria to leave WTO

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...

Reserve Currency Cold War: Dollar vs. Yuan

Besides weakening Chinese economy, saving petrodollar which meant not to allow Saddam Hussein to carry out his threats of switching from dollar to the would be petroeuro was why Iraq was invaded in 2003. If it's not, what else would have been the explanation for such high oil prices while Iraqi oilfields which would have been pumping as high as 6 million barrels per day remained locked up?

On The Coming N5,000 Note Economic Whirlwind

From the erratic, unpredictable and unsure brainwave that rules the country's economy at present came the decree one sultry morning that the Naira is about to be restructured. The high point of the restructuring is the plan to print N5,000 notes and the conversion of lower denomination of the national currency  into coins...

Central Bank Denomination Of The Naira: Devaluing Our National Heroes

Frankly speaking, I don’t have a problem with the proposed plans by the Central  Bank of Nigeria to honour some of our past  women leaders, who stood out like Amazons and fought  gallantly  to redeemed the image of women in the country and contributed immeasurably to the freedom and democracy we are all enjoying today...

Nigeria 5,000 Naira note: What is Central Bank of Nigeria thinking?

How long will it take Nigerian policy makers to come out from their self imposed bubble and comprehend that the policy decision they make can have adverse consequences?

Otedola's Zenon: Strategic Opportunities and Investments

Femi Otedola has taken Zenon Petroleum and Gas to its greater heights in the area of petroleum products marketing and distribution. As the president and chief executive officer, he has accomplished the tremendous task of making Zenon a household name in Nigeria and beyond...

Blaming the Rescuers

Creating wealth from thin air was irresistible and frictionless for a government churning out dollar bills. In a globalization-led international division of labor, while China led the world in industrial production, US led in the production of the dollars...

Ending the battle over Nigeria's capital market

It was not just a piece of good news; it was the best news coming from Nigeria's capital market. And for someone following this capital market drama, I felt happy that it finally has come to an end, thanks to the wise decision of the government...

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On The Anambra Non-Sequitor

There is always something in the swashbuckling of a carpetbagger that predisposes him to exhibit an avaricious a personality.  There will never be a respite from the original sin that Ngige was the one selected as a willing tool of plunder of my kinsmen in Anambra...

Beyond The Armed Forces Remembrance Day Parade

It does appear to me that Nigerians are yet...

Facts of the Matter:  Governor Sim Vs Martins Amaehule and 26 Members of the RSHA

It is not about being eloquent; matters of the...

Proud to Come from Anambra State

People living in Anambra State may not always appreciate...

The Cold-Blooded Murder of Captain Jerry Agbeyegbe

We kill our best and our brightest; we kill our innovators; we kill our political gadfly; we kill those who dare to be different; we kill those who helped in conquering frontiers; and we kill those with uncommon ideas and ideals. We have become a nation of cold-blooded murderers...

Prosperity, Eternity (4): Channels of Distribution

What must believers do here to lay hold on eternal life? They should do good; they should be rich in good works; they should be ready to distribute; they should be willing to communicate. What if saints refuse to do these things?

Critics, Commentators, and Gadflies

I do what I do on this and other sites only as a leisure pursuit. But considering what I have gone through in the last couple of months, and more so in the last couple of days, I have come to have greater respect and admiration for writers, critics, gadflies, and social commentators...

Between President Yar’adua and Alhaji Kingibe

It is often advocated in politics, that it is advisable to keep one’s ‘enemies’ within sight in order to keep a close eye on them. But in the case of Alhaji Kingibe it may be best to dispatch him...

Global Media Imbalance And Michael Peel’s Africa

The age-old reliance by African countries on Western media such as the BBC, Financial Times, CNN, VOA, etc., for information has not really done Africa much good. The time has come for Africa and Africans to start telling their own stories...

Immunity Clause: To Stay Or Not To Stay

It is not hard to see that corrupt political leaders will make effort to see that the immunity clause is retained in the Constitution. That is the cloak under which they have been hiding for years and perpetrating their crimes against the Nigerian people...