Business & Economy

Recalibrating MPR, A Proud Moment of Macroeconomic Stability from Volatility

In a move that has sent clear ripples across Nigeria’s financial landscape, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has taken the...

Olayemi Cardoso: Steering Nigeria’s Macro Economy as Governor of the Central Bank

Since assuming office as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on September 22nd, 2023, Olayemi Cardoso has spearheaded landmark reforms that have...

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...

Save Nigeria’s imports-dependent economy

In this era of technological revolution, a sequel of the industrial era, Nigeria should jump on the bandwagon of promising knowledge economy that predominantly drives the development of new technologies, skills, strategies, processes, procedures and aptitudes to revive the nation’s comatose industrial sector...

Welcoming Northern Economic Region

There is no great economy without many regional economic entities competing among themselves within it. The United States, which every nation has looked up to until the recent emergence of the Dragon, was as vibrant and robust as its twelve regional economies fiercely competing amongst themselve...

African economies and the global debt crisis

So far, the current global debt crisis has cost the leaders of Greece and Italy their jobs. Who will be next? Only time will tell...

Ghana as Nigerians’ investments haven

It is disheartening to note that even long before the advent of the continued economic and financial meltdown, which started manifesting late 2008, and still troubles the global economy up till now, a sizeable number of Nigerian businesses apparently, had found the country’s business climate tough and unfriendly...

NGF: Can This Economic System Be The Best?

Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State is revealing something new to us. His clamour for more funds for the states in the name of reviewing the Revenue Sharing Formula is like a cry of a family man raising his family without any budget...

Sanusi Lamido banking sector reform: a two and a half year review

 One of the most controversial chapters in the Sanusi banking reform is his sacking of the managing directors of five banks and replacing them with CBN appointed managers. Many people thought that was the end of Sanusi...

CBN, nationalised banks and investors

Numerous stakeholders in the financial industry and Nigerians in general have well-observed over time, that Malam Sanusi’s carefree and occasionally inconsistent policy pronouncements on certain burning fiscal issues concerning Nigerian and foreign investors alike, leave much to be desired...

Understanding why China is eager to buy Eurobond

There has never been a worse time for Europe than now. Its euro zone economy is almost bankrupt. And this long awaited time-bomb is taking place after decades of loading their economies with unsustainable social benefits...

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On that Tinubu/Ambode Spat

Whichever way the reported faceoff between Governor Akinwunmi Ambode,...

Ogbonna Ike: Another Young Turk Goes Down!

Maybe being a young person, I feel that one should not be slowed down by the fear of death. However, the death of two very close young people is beginning to make me think that maybe after all the good die young...

Ijaws and Ijawnation: What are Our Goals and Destiny?

Where do the Ijaws belong? Where do we belong? What is our destiny? Why do we remain part of a republic that treats us like a broken piece of glass? What makes us carry the cross our neighbors have forced us to bear? Why do we, with our eyes closed, turn the other cheek for unnecessary slaps and abuse? Why are we the way we are? Why?

The PMBAT Curse: A Nation Shackled to a Mythology of Bad Luck?

In ancient Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux— the celestial...

Pornography And Its Discontents

Pornography happens to women. It thrusts on them an insulting view of their social roles, generating a feeling of gender and sexual inferiority. It is a concrete way of changing someone into something...

The Sun, Kalu and Ojukwu

Showers of tribute are still being disbursed to the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who was interred in his ancestral hometown of Nnewi, Anambra State, on the 2nd of March 2012...

It is Time to Give up on Jonathan

It is a poorly kept secret that, in the Jonathan household, the Mrs, Patience, is the one who wears the pants.  She rules the roost.  She is the one in charge; the boss...

Amaechi His Sycophants

Amaechi seems to love blind eyes, by way of his exhibited habits, loving the rhythms of the sycophantic praises, forgetting the fact that no leader has ever lived in the Government House forever...

If You Obasanjo Me…I Will Atiku You!

What do we do about these two men who have decided to blindly pursue their own selfish goals without minding the calamity that will befall the nation?

The Silent Working Governor

Good governance is a democratic idea and process that...