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...

Aruma Oteh's Love For Shame

It is a known fact that Oteh was covering up her low understanding of the capital market which collapsed due to her inefficiency, combined with her financial recklessness. She shamelessly agreed to come back after the Reps had accused her of wasting public funds…spent N30m on hotel bills in 8 months…N85, 000 on meals per day...

Nigeria’s Economy and the CBN: Inflation Rate May Rise above 15%

The slowing down of the economy may be partially attributed to lack of structural reforms as was enunciated by Sanusi. But the crust of the matter was the partial removal of the fuel subsidy that brought about the increase of cost of living and production...

Nigeria Economic Activities: Inflation, Interest Rate and CBN Meeting

The two-day meeting of Central Bank of Nigeria's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ended with a lukewarm outlook, projection and pronouncement on the state of the economy by the Governor Sanusi, the head of the country's apex bank...

Kenyan Oil Discovery: A Source of Wealth Creation and Development

With the discovery of large oil deposits in the isolated Northern Turkana region of Kenya by Tullow Oil PLC and British Oil, the East African nation has begun its journey of joining the exclusive club of African oil producing nations...

Stop the fireworks at capital market probe

The Government, again, must revive the nation’s economy by creating an enabling environment for more Nigerian businesses, particularly Small and Medium Enterprises to get listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in order to access relatively cheap funds for growth and expansion...

Capital Market Probe: Unmask the Culprits

What kind of confidence are we talking about here when the entire world is watching a nation that is not bold enough to tell itself the hard truth? Confidence while the criminals who used the Capital Market as their platform to steal trillions are yet to be arrested and brought to face the law?

Nigeria: Inflation spikes, Naira recoils and T-bills sale continues

The country’s inflation rate is not subsiding and with March's surging inflation rate at 12.1 percent, the partial removal of fuel subsidy has begun to clamp down on the economy. The inflation rate of February was at 11.9 percent...

The Recovery of Nigeria's Financial Sector

It all started with the race to consolidation. An ultimate challenge to their very survival, the N25 billion consolidation turned banking into a fraud Ponzi scheme. Not even the Investment and Securities Act of 1999 could stop banks from gambling with depositors’ funds in the capital market...

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A State Of Anomie: The Tragedy At Sandy Hook Elementary, CT

The right to bear arms remains.  The state of anomie persists.  Unfortunately, until something drastic is done to stop the carnage from gun violence and better attention is paid to mental illness, and the alienation that goes with it...

Farewell Chief Gani Fawehinmi: Champion of the Masses

I felt a strong urge to step outdoors to espy the night skies, in the fervent, but furtive hope of catching a glimpse - however fleeting - of the ascent in celestial skies of that great soul which for 71 years animated and embodied the flesh of the man we came to know, admire, and respect as Chief Gani Fawehinmi....

Muhammad Jibrin Barde and His Strong Agendas

By Suleiman Saidu Usman There is a long tradition of...

The Days Gone By

I am hunting for a house presently and at the same time trying to settle into a new job. New work ethics, new colleagues, new bosses, new sector, new everything. There are things to learn again, especially being a Nigerian again after sojourning abroad...

Strategic Factors and Options in Ijaw Land: Responding to Priye Torulagha

What is the level of “federal presence” in Ijaw land? How many colleges of education, polytechnics, colleges of arts & science, roads, hospitals and clinics, bridges, highways, and the likes do we have? And to think that for its economic survival, Nigeria is riding on our back and shoulder?

Fela! Lives on Broadway

In life and six feet below the ground, Fela Anikulapo Kuti remains an enigma to be decoded to many and mystery to be unraveled by both his fans and detractors...

Recycled Olympians

There is just no way our sports administrators can ever convince anyone that there are no sprinters in our nation who are younger and faster than the likes of Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, Mercy Nku and Endurance Ojokolo. If the American sprinter (Marion Jones) had been a Nigerian, definitely, she would have represented our nation till she was 90 years old...

Contemporary Christianity, TB Joshua And The Squealing Pharisees

This piece will, no doubt, elicit mixed reactions from...

Is Sex Education Not Child Abuse?

It is not surprising that the recent directive by the...

Single Currency for Africa: Incidental Or Essential?

Rulers from African countries will meet at the next bi-annual AU summit to discuss political, security and financial issues affecting the world’s top sub-Saharan region. Nigeria still hopes that there will be a single currency for the countries of the African Union...