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...

Our Poor Economy: The Need To Chart A New Course

Unfortunately not many Nigerians believe the economic conditions are much better now than they were before Obasanjo's emergence in the political scene in 1999...

Post Consolidation: How Safe Are Nigerian Banks?

No bank or nation really stands alone. So whenever a bank fails, there is concern that it may pull other banks down with it or reduce the confidence so essential to the banking industry...

Making The Nation's Refineries Functional

Nigerians and even foreigners have often said that with the resources which God has bestowed on our country, Nigerians have no reason to suffer-in the midst of plenty...

Oceanic Bank Honoured In London As Nigerian Bank Of The Year 2007

At the prestigious Dorchester Hotel, London, Oceanic Bank was adjudged the Nigerian Bank of the Year for the second year running...

Nigeria’s Real Path To Progress

Until having a good meal of chicken is not considered a luxury in the average Nigerian home, the Government can not claim to have succeeded in improving lives in Nigeria...

Between Usman and Soludo

It is expedient and desirable for the good of the country to avoid unnecessary diverse views about the country’s economic policies at this time...

Currency Redenomination: The Cedi Ahead As Politics Halts The Naira

There are indications that Nigeria’s currency, the Naira, is favoured to be the ECOWAS common currency in 2009. Given the current rate of exchange between the Naira and the U.S. dollar, vis-à-vis the Ghanaian cedi and the U.S. dollar, there is need for the naira to buckle up or for ECOWAS to have a rethink…

Naira Redenomination: Winners and Losers

In every Sabo and near transit centers are men and families who will lose their means of livelihood if Soludo had succeeded in making the naira convertible and strengthened its rate of conversion...

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Salami Case As Symptom of Nigerian Judicial Atrophy

I don't know what was possibly on the mind of President Goodluck Jonathan as he quickly acceded to the generally criticized recommendation of the National Judicial Council to remove Justice Ayo Salami, the President of the Appeal Court...

Celebrating The Nigerian Political Amazons

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The Canards of Continuity and Change

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I have a friend who always jokes and says “isn’t life ironical? You that was born to play, you went to school to study and now they actually give you money for you to play..."

US: Averting economic woes by raising debt limit

The economic impact of not raising debt ceiling and subsequent default by United States may have domino effect on Nigeria and Africa as a result of AGOA and NEPAD...

Understanding Youth Conflict and Sustainable Initiative Model (2)

Conflict is one of the major concerns not only in any given continent, it also affects the international community as well. Conflict is simply the absence of peace, and the successive introduction of diversified sense of humor of people within the context of a community or society...

Soludo Solutions & Economic Reforms in Nigeria

Critics of the current governor of Central Bank of Nigeria predicted that the sky would fall as a result of the bank recapitalization and consolidation embarked upon by Professor Soludo...

Gowon’s Hollow Promises: Eastern Nigeria’s Festering Wounds!

More than five decades after the Nigerian Civil War...

The Nigerian Police and Opposition of Government

The clamour for the creation of state police by...

Democracy And Freedom Of Choice: Still A Mirage In Nigeria

It is difficult to fathom where our leaders’ concept and understanding of democracy emanated from. Once a person is elected to public office, he sees himself not as the servant of the people, but now as controller who is not accountable to anyone...