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 Truth About Nigeria’s Banking Sector

Events that have recently unfolded in the banking sector of Nigeria has truly lived up to the sector’s rating as the Nation's most vibrant. The replacement of five bank CEOs and their executive boards was the climax...

Global Recession: It’s Implications On Nigeria's Economy and The Way Forward

Economists are often, occasionally unfairly, ridiculed as people who are good at theory but struggle when faced with the challenges of the real world as currently  being witnessed  globally. In times of economic prosperity, this isn’t a major problem, but when times are as bad as they are now, policy makers and politicians have to sit up and listen...

A Critique of Pat Utomi’s Theory on Management Leadership

When experts stumble, our world tumble and we may fumble; indeed the history of professionals in our national life is riddled with book experts who make a generalization of their knowledge but fail woefully in its application...

Nigeria's Prodigal Government: A Road to Economic Recovery?

The number of hungry people in Nigeria has jumped by 100 million in the past two years, aggravated by high food and fuel prices and the global economic slowdown...

No Job In Nigeria: A Market or Manpower Failure?

Why do we crib and grumble till we turn crabby and yet continue to work for the same organization we often hate or condemn? Perhaps, it is the small pay packet...

Yar’Adua’s Budget Battle with the National Assembly

Just as many predicted when President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua signed the 2009 Appropriation Bill into law last March, the Executive and Legislative arms of government at the federal level have, for the umpteenth time, locked themselves in a largely unhelpful muscle-flexing over the implementation of the national budget...

Ode To A Nation’s Neglected Economy

If there was anytime that Nigeria was truly good or great, it was in the vainglorious 70s, sometimes snidely referred to as the ‘oil-boom’ years. Those who experienced it describe it in superlatives and in platitudinous terms...

Need for the Dollarization the Nigerian Naira

Ironically, because of the lack of confidence in our Naira, Nigeria is already Dollarized in an unofficial sense.  While the Naira is still the medium of exchange, it has virtually lost its other functions, particularly as a store of value...

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PDP, APC, what’s the Difference?

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Thank you Rotimi Amaechi…

When I met Governor Rotimi Amaechi, I was, in the words of an anonymous writer, looking down. When I left him, however, I was looking up. Besides the notorious or infamous aftermath of the election that justifiably retained him as the Chairman of Nigerian Governors’ Forum, news of Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s sense of humanity and love has filtered in very recently...

EFCC Versus Tompolo: A Case Of Double Standards Or Selective Justice?

Once again, the drama of Nigeria’s anti-corruption crusade has...

Amaechi and His Lesson to RUST’s Lecturers

The perceived show of might between the Rivers State Governor and the striking lecturers of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology under the umbrella of ASUU has taken a different dimension...

Opposition Nonsense and Activist’s Wuru-wuru

Like everything Nigerian, opposition is dead. The tragedy of my country is not the actions of bad men; it is the silence or disorganization of good ones that makes our country one of the most backward in the world and definitely ranking among the most decadent society in the history of mankind...

Again, A Case of Uncounted Billions

To a first-time visitor, much of Nigeria is likely to appear like the wreckage of a long war, what with its gutted roads, rutted infrastructure, the near-absence of electric power, and the paucity of pipe-borne water...

Jordan: The £30million Boobs

Katie Price, iconically known as Jordan, always presents me with a moral dilemma. Is it really chic to flash your chesty asset in people's faces and live and be proud of the proceeds of such shameless perversion?

An Embarrassing Healthcare System

Of all the roadblocks that exist in the Nigerian healthcare system, disharmony and rivalry among health professionals is the biggest challenge. Doctors care more about remuneration than healthcare reforms...

With Over N100b Annually Gov. Orji Can’t Provide Job Opportunities?

The governor said that he had made kidnapping disappear from the state, but he could not make unemployment disappear from the same state, even with the huge funds that the state grabs
monthly and annually...

Revolutionary Change, Democratic Space and the Great Nigerian Inquisition

Ours is a revolution against waste, fraud and abuse and the vampires who have held Nigerians in political and economic bondage for fifty years. It is a revolution for accountability retribution and redress. The Nigerian Pharaohs although brutal and bloody, must bow...