Business & Economy

President Goodluck Jonathan’s economic blue-print for industrialisation is  crucial to the development of Nigeria  and this has been  commended by well meaning progressive Nigerians both at home and abroad…

Nigeria should seek some unconventional solutions to tackling its power problem. The most plausible way to putting the present power problem behind us is to seek sovereign loans from countries …

To start development planning in Nigeria, the President should as a matter of urgency, elevate the Minister of National Planning as both Planning and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, while …

We have been suffering from an oil wealth illusion. Because oil money flows without the people or the government involved, we’ve developed an entitlement mentality. Since some distant nations and …

Is an economy with high interest rates, high inflation rates, and high unemployment rates growing? Should a highly import dependent and infrastructure deficient economy, be economy?

Before 2015, let’s send the present incompetent economic team home along with their obsolete textbook development theories. In their place should be a team of vibrant goal-getters, whose mission should …

Like China before Deng’s economic revolution, Nigeria today tops the world’s corruption, unemployment, and rundown economic charts. Also like China before its economic revolution, Nigeria today is littered with graveyards …

It is easy to understand that any Nigerian that knows what an oil bloc is will want one. Understandably not every Nigerian can get one. The question then is: In …

If it is now agreed that NNPC should be privatized so that the field is left open for private participation in upstream activities in Nigeria, then caution must be exercised. …

If a team is hired to turn around a badly managed economy, but after 18 months on the job, rather than turn it around, it has made matters worse, should …

By the time the ravaging global liquidity crush, which started on Wall Street in September 2008, was over, Nigeria’s own version of the financial fiasco couldn’t be more dramatic. Dropping …

First indictment was that former President Obasanjo left a whopping $67 billion in foreign reserves for his successors. Second indictment was that Yar’Adua and Jonathan administrations squandered that money in …

Given how long-term growth prospects and macroeconomic sustainability are interwoven, securing the financial sector’s soundness in the economy should never happen in isolation…

The havoc the 2008 financial crisis brought to Nigeria would have been minimal, had it not been that the breakdown in CBN’s oversight and surveillance system allowed the country’s banks …

It is good for the residents of a given society to pay their taxes, but the authorities concerned with the management of the people must make sure that the people’s …

Streamlining our unheard-of 541 agencies and departments, especially with many just duplication, should be done immediately. It’s time to implement the white paper on the Ahmed Joda Panel Reported on …