Business & Economy

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...

Why Strengthening Nigeria’s Banks Matters

“The recapitalisation programme has strengthened the capital base of Nigerian banks, reinforcing the resilience of the financial system and ensuring it is well-positioned to...

Tinubu’s Economic Hitman and the Taxation of Poverty

By Paul Okojie By any measure, Nigeria is passing through one of the most difficult economic periods in its recent history. Rising inflation, declining purchasing...

Okonjo-Iweala as economic reformer

Her second coming into the country’s helm of affairs as a Minister of the Federal Republic is considered in many quarters as a development that portends a huge blessing for the generality of Nigerians. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been described as a frank and forward-moving person...

Aganga and the challenge of attracting foreign investment

The global outlook for Oil, Nigeria’s main export is not very promising. The uncertainties of the global economy will continue to push investors away from longer term engagements...

The Liberation of Nigeria's Economic Thought: Rational Suggestions on Nigeria's Economic Transformation

The coming transformation must be judged by the caliber of leaders on the ground, in all spheres of governance and not by mere proclamations, promises, speech-making, retreats, conferences and declarations of intent...

The 2011 Senate committee on privatisation and allied matters

At its plenary session, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria set up a Committee to investigate the privatization of Federal Government companies by the Bureau of Public Enterprises since the inception of the sales of those companies to private companies...

Faulting CBN’s Rationale for Daily Cash Withdrawal Limits

I consider as very improper the use of regulatory or legislative fiat to limit daily cash withdrawals by bank customers. Whose money are depositors withdrawing? Worse still, it is unpardonable to penalize them for withdrawing above a particular limit...

Dissecting Jonathan Goodluck's economic team

Which type of economic team is this Jonathan team? Or to be more specific what should we expect from a team that comprises ex World Bank managing director, former investment banker from Goldman Sachs, a radical former managing director of Nigeria’s biggest bank, ex deputy governor of the CBN, as well as occasional counsel from the members of Nigerian Economic Society?

Nigeria’s transition to knowledge-based economy

Nigeria should constantly be on the necessary voyage of discovery and search for new knowledge to resolve our devastating growth and development challenges and subsequently create wealth...

Towards reviving the industrial sector

A flourishing and sustainable industrial sector certainly remains a key factor for the accomplishment of economic growth in any potentially great economy as Nigeria’s. Yet, the reverse seems to be the case in the country as of now...

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Nigerian Men and their Foreign Wives

Culturally, Nigerian men are overbearing, controlling, and paternalistic.  They relate to their fathers and mothers differently. They believe it is “a man’s world” and so they have the tendency to relegate women to subservient roles. I am stunned by the transformation Nigerian men, married to non-Nigerian women, have gone through in the United States...

Is Genevieve Nnaji Nigeria’s First Movie Superstar?

What is this Nnaji mystique that has her audience colliding heads so joyfully, crawling, craving some time in her sun? Star quality is what it is. The amount of talent dripping from her little finger is more than many of our other female leading ladies have combined...

Why Do African Men Go Home to Marry?

The African male is perplexing. He can be enigmatic. He can be everything and sometimes, nothing. He can be sweet and loving and caring and benevolent and at the same time oppressive. His life is full of contradictions. In so many ways, he is a wounded animal as a result of his historical past...

Mobil’s Oily Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights

The eight-year long battle between Commandclem Nigeria Limited and Mobil Producing Nigeria Limited, over ownership of patent and intellectual rights to a chemical invention for offshore drilling seems in sight…

Lost in a Sea of Hair Weaves

One can understand some black women wearing wigs for the same reasons that some white women do; because they are losing or have lost their hair. One can even make allowances for wigs being worn for the occasional change of look. But how to explain young women with full heads of hair who will never be seen dead with their natural hair?