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...

The Conscience of a Chinese Capitalist

To understand how the Chinese business community was able to transform themselves and their country is not that simple...

Africa's OandO raising N21 billion Naira from capital market: Sign of Progress

Oando Plc has the potential and the credibility to become a major player in the global energy industry in 21st century...

IMF: Increasing SDR Can Benefit Africa

Special Drawing Rights can become a powerful instrument to wipe out all the African debt. IMF can create more SDRs and issue an allocation specifically for debt payment without triggering global inflation...

Policing Our Budget(s)

Nigerians should not hesitate to volunteer information that will prevent capital flights. This is for the interest of the economy and our people. We can gather intelligence or become intelligent agents...

Nigeria's Central Bank on lower interest rate

The Central Bank of Nigeria announced at the beginning of the first quarter, 2010, to keep and maintain 6 percent benchmark interest rate...

PayPal: The World Minus Nigeria

What exactly is the magnitude of our ‘offence’ if put in the proper perspective? Did Nigeria and Nigerians invent internet scamming? Did we take out a patent on it, or was the ‘Registered Trademark’ of Country of Scammers thrust on us by an over-malicious outside world?

Managing and implementing a successful micro financing Project in Anambra State

The government of Anambra State of Nigeria and Access Bank, a local financial institution, have recently launched a 2.5 Billion Naira microfinance project. This is good news...

Payment of Nigeria’s foreign debt: The largest transfer of wealth in modern time

The billions of dollars that Nigeria paid was larger than the donations the rich nations will be providing to poor countries in a period of ten years. The money paid to the rich nations of Paris Club and London Club of Creditors would have found its best use in Africa, if not in Nigeria...

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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?