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...

Sanusi's CBN and Waning of Monetary Policy as tool to control rising Inflation

There is a global demand for some of Nigeria's staple food that is imported. Nigerian government should be in partnership with large scale domestic farmers without being overbearing to them...

Of Inflation and minimum wage demands in Nigeria

Is the perennial agitation for minimum wage increase justifiable? This is the question many people have been asking. From an economic point of view, continuous wage increase is not justifiable. In fact it is ruinous to the economy...

Issues with the non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB

Our emphasis for now should not be on expanding oil and gas production, no. It should be on providing legislation for monies that come in from oil and gas to be spent in repairing the damage to the oil and gas producing areas...

Forbes Billionaires: Dangote and Adenuga as symbols of Nigeria's growing economy

The emerging Nigerian business executives and Nigerian universities, especially the business schools, should look up and be willing to learn from the two most successful Nigerian billionaires.  Our universities must create curriculums on teaching students the models of operations and methodologies employed by the business trail blazers...

Employers’ Greed

It is time employers focused on the integrity and pride of their employees and treat them as human beings...

Sanusi's Central Bank of Nigeria raised interest rate to  6.50 percent

Rising Inflationary trend is the most persistent threat to Nigeria's growing economy.   The Central Bank of Nigeria and its monetary policy committee voted to lift the benchmark interest rate of previously 6.25 percent to 6.50 percent...

Strategic significance as Chinese Yuan joins trading currencies in Nigeria

It was just a matter of time before Chinese currency Yuan will join the family of currencies traded in Nigeria's foreign exchange market...

Re: Update of Bank Account Information in Nigeria – The Plight of Nigerians Abroad

Are you now saying that failure of these Nigerians to come to Nigeria to update their bank accounts’ information will result in the suspension of their accounts with considerable sums of Naira in such accounts?

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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...

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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

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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?