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...

The Strategic Path To Nigeria’s Economic Stability

Nigeria's economy is gradually gaining stability, with the leadership of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the helm of a well-coordinated decisions that are...

Reflections on Naira-for-Crude

The Naira-for-Crude initiative has ignited a profound debate in Nigeria's economic landscape, yielding tangible results, such as the consistent drop in petrol prices. It...

What Did Nigeria Do With Oil in the Years of Plenty? A Nation’s Billion-Dollar Blunders!

Between 2010 and 2014, Nigeria stood at the cusp of unprecedented economic transformation. The nation, blessed with rich hydrocarbon deposits, witnessed an oil boom...

Tinubu’s $21.5 Billion Loan Gumbo: Who’s Really Benefiting?

While the streets of Nigeria are filled with hunger-stricken faces, jobless youth, and families struggling to buy a cup of garri, the government of...

Navigating Economic Currents: Steady Hand on Monetary Policy

In the unending battle of economic stability, with both promising growth and persistent challenges, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has made a pivotal...

CBN’s Strategic Shift: A Review of the 2024 Financial Performance

The Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) financial statements for the year 2024 have generated significant interest, not only among financial analysts and economists but...

Sustainable Macroeconomic Stability; A New Era of Transparency and Confidence

The recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG) Spring Meetings brought to the forefront the pressing need for global cooperation in...

Revitalizing Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange Market

In recent months, the Nigerian foreign exchange market has attracted substantial attention due to the proactive measures initiated by the Central Bank of Nigeria...

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Power, Uninterrupted

No, the title of this column has nothing to do with electric power. It refers, instead, to raw, rampant political power. There’s a surfeit of that other kind of power in Nigeria...

Till Death Do Us Part: Wife Murder and Our Deadly Habits

Not too long ago I wrote a short fiction about sexual molestation of a young girl by her uncle and it stirred quite a bit of emotion. I have recently received several pieces of communication regarding Nigerian men killing their wives...

The Tottering National Conference

A rabid, malignant cancer of tribalism has eaten deeply into our national psyche so much that all mental and physical actions of almost every Nigerian are dictated by personal and sectional interests...

This Phase Shall Pass

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The World At A Tipping Point!

Some topics covered at a two-month ‘Environmental Reporting’ training in Berlin, Germany, organised by the International Institute for Journalism, IIJ, of InWent, reveals that the world  is at a’ tipping point’, an irreversible point of climate change...

Escaping the Age Noose

Just before I am labelled as an errant, ‘westernised’, neo-colonised and cheeky African or infuriate the ‘traditional’ African reader, it is expedient to say I am an uncompromised, thick-lip, bushy-hair black African, with crimson-red Nubian blood running through my capillaries...

Reverse Migration: Time To Go Home

After almost 50 years of independence, and travelling to all places to acquire knowledge, education, experience, wealth, renown, etc, let us start translating all these virtues into progress and development for our beloved country...

Rwanda’s Zero Fleet Policy – Why Can’t The Rest Of Africa Follow Suit?

Imagine a country where ministers don’t move around in...

The Conquest of State Terrorism

Comrade Julius Malema is the former radical intrepidly-outspoken leader...

Politics, Power and Government

Power, like an aphrodisiac, is intoxicating and addictive. Once you have had a taste of it, it becomes difficult for the ordinary person to let go...