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...

Thoughts on Revenue Generation

In a nationwide address last Monday, President Bola Tinubu announced some palliatives to mitigate the impact of the high cost of living brought about...

Emefiele And The Logs In His Eyes

What an irony! The operational network of Zenith Bank has collapsed for over a week now. No customer can transfer a farthing of their...

Periscope of the Roots of Nigeria’s Economic Woes

Solutions to problems, whatever the ramification, are never far to fetch. In so far as those labouring to solve them are as well minded...

In Osun, Commerce is Life

Since time immemorial, Commerce has been seen as the mirror that depicts the economic reality of a given people. The buoyancy or otherwise of the...

Parachutes Everywhere but None to Stem the Plunge of the Naira

The parachute has always featured in the Nigerian story. What with it being the magic wand that had been used to drop the first...

Whose VAT?

It was Aristotle that echoed in latin “Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas” meaning Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend. Permit me...

Primitive Banking In Awka, Anambra State

People who have known me over time can attest to the fact that I am quite good at doing public service. It is, thanks...

It’s the Stats, Stupid!

Back then in the USA, it was someone in Bill Clinton's campaign team as they battled to trump Bush Snr's presidency in 1992 that's...

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The Rivers State Emergency Dilemma!

Rivers State is now under emergency rule, and it's...

The Liberation of Nigeria's Economic Thought: Rational Suggestions on Nigeria's Economic Transformation

The coming transformation must be judged by the caliber of leaders on the ground, in all spheres of governance and not by mere proclamations, promises, speech-making, retreats, conferences and declarations of intent...

Python Dance and the Trials of Muhammadu Buhari

In between 1986 and 1990; Nigeria had a Prof....

Issues in Nigerian Universities (1)

Teachers pimping students and or fellow teachers for financial and non-financial gains.  Teachers selling handouts and other documents to supplement their income...Sadly, these are some of the realities in our institutions of higher learning...

Terror List: Tales of Humiliation at Foreign Airports

In a particular reported incident, a young Nigerian student heading to school in Ukraine was repeatedly questioned till he broke down in tears. Why? His first two names were Umar Farouk but the surname was different from the Detroit underwear bomber...

Don Imus: Further Punishment Would Be Unjust and Un-American

Hateful words have a way of consuming those who utter them. Hateful words also have a way of damaging people's sense of self and their self-esteem. We see both coming to play in the case of Mr. Don Imus and his verbal victims...

Ijaw Nation And South-South/South-East Politics

Events preceding the Nigerian civil war, and the part played by some Ijaw leaders at the time, and immediately after the war, especially in Port-Harcourt, have come to define the modern Ijaw political philosophy. A propaganda philosophy that could be said to be rooted in the fear of Igbo vendetta...

An “Ibori-tized” Nation

Last week was simply terrible for former Governor James Onanefe Ibori and his wife, Theresa Nkoyo Ibori. In a London court, an enterprising, no-nonsense Crown prosecutor put Mrs. Ibori through a grueling cross-examination. Theresa Ibori is being tried in London for aiding and abetting her husband’s money laundering during the eight years he presided over the affairs of Delta State...

Corruption Intervention Methods

While the war against corruption rages on, the past beneficiaries of corruption are not idle. Everyone knows that one of the major causes of corruption is the lack of accountability of the past governments to the scrutiny of the public. Obasanjo to prove his resolve must go against members of the retired club of generals...

Why the Government May Be Wrong on The New ‘Minimum’ Wage

No one will dispute that our workers deserve decent wages that will guarantee social self-reproduction without recourse to moonlighting, bribery and corruption or primitive accumulation...