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...

Economic Growth: Nigeria Government Approach Is Wrong!

Nigeria must begin to make the shift to other sources of growth that can provide jobs and the dynamism to increase skills and productivity over time...

Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund: Prospect and Frontiers!

In order to survive an economic recession, the best thing to do is to have an emergency fund like a "Sovereign Wealth Fund" set up in case a job is lost...

CBN Governor should work for real people

The recent inclusion of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Lamido Sanusi, on the celebrated list of the 100 most influential people in world has filled many of us with pride and joy but a closer look at the achievements of his administration has also shown us that there is a missing trophy in the collection of the CBN Governor...

NIGERIA: IMF comes with depressing forecast of lower productivity and higher inflation

IMF has advised Nigeria to devalue her currency, Naira, without giving a logical reason for the advice. For a currency that is already weakened by rising inflation to be devalued is for Nigeria to be inviting economic woes voluntarily...

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...

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Zoning of Public Office and Its National Relevance

Zoning as a concept has its pros and cons especially in a multi-composite society like Nigeria. We co-habit in a society but divided in a variety of ways...

Alamiyeisegha and the Niger Delta Question

Any hope that an individual holds the key to the quelling of the militancy and eventual resolution of the crisis in the Niger Delta is bound to fail...

Decoding Animal Talk Jagbanjantis!

Obasanjo as a specimen never ceases to amuse me. This is a man that nominated a Vice President for two terms, I mean twice in the space of four years and then turns around in the eighth year to tell us he is the most corrupt politician in the history of Nigeria. No be animal talk be that?

JAMB and Continuous Extortion

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is the...

Ohakim’s Nsiko Mentality Theory And Ndigbo

Ohakim has a message for Ndigbo; don’t continue dwelling in self-pity, stop lamenting the tragedies of the civil war because the civil war is over, stop blaming others for your woes, work to attain whatever you want to attain...

My Defence On Non-Violence And Peace – Ahimsa

Be it as it may, if you practice Ahimsa, you should put up with insults, rebukes, criticisms and assaults also. You should never retaliate nor wish to offend anybody even under extreme provocation...

Deja Vu (3): Nigeria Will Make It – Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu At His Best

Like him or hate him, Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would forever remain an enigma in the Nigerian political horizon. One easily forgets that this great Nigerian was a career Civil Servant...

APC Should Face The Real Issues

Recently, the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC),...

Getting an Edge Where It Matters Most

Don’t let anybody deceive you, if hard work indeed brings prosperity, every coal miner in South Africa would be richer than Michael Jordan, Geoge Soros and Warren Buffet put together...

Ibori et al and the Shameless Ones among Us

Ibori's ordeal looks like a replay of the Bayelsa story told above. But it's more shameful since he successfully evaded the Nigerian legal system, slipped off EFCC, and was bold enough to seek his party's presidential ticket...