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...

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...

Subsidy removal: government concern about efficiency gains vs citizenry worries about increasing hardship

There is evidence that the major beneficiaries of oil subsidy are oil importers, distributors and filling stations across the country...

Peculiar problems of the Nigerian labor market

Aside series of persistent obstacles, shortcomings and problems, Nigeria, like every other developing country, is driving towards a stage where it could accommodate a good number of people from the domestic and foreign market...

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Are Sovereign Conferences Inevitable?

The awakened common Nigerians should continue to shout as loudly as they can and from every rooftop until we wake up all the sleeping common Nigerians...

Gov. Amaechi and PDP’s Visible Regret

From the look of things, it does not require the help of a soothsayer to tell the world that the People's Democratic Party, PDP, has been regretting and also fighting already lost wars...

Operation Amotekun: An Experiment in Community Policing

In a nation where so much of the rich,...

The Resurrection of June 12 and Buhari’s Place in the History of Nigeria! 

"A leader takes people where they want to go....

Police brutality and Onovo’s challenge

When Nigerians think about the disappointments of their perpetually infantile nation, they often focus narrowly on rigged elections and the abuses of their gluttonous public officials...

State and Politics: Nigeria’s Policy Towards The Ijaw

Since flag independence from Britain in 1960, the Ijaw have never stopped complaining about their ill-treatment at the hands of successive Nigerian government, be it military or civilian...

Inside the Niger Delta, Nigerians are Sacrificial Lambs!

One example of sheer lack of accountability can be seen in recent allocation of funds by this government. Regarding the funds released by the government to the Niger Delta states at various intervals for ration...

The Ubiquity of Corruption and the Blame Game in Nigeria

“Corruption comes from low self-esteem, poor self-concept, low self-worth,...

Oshiomhole Versus Igbinedion

Comrade-Governor Adams Oshiomhole has done his best in changing the fortunes of a great city abandoned and left to rot away by past Governors whose mediocrity had never been in doubt...

The Unending Rivers Political Pattern

The drama in the political space of Rivers State...