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One day, hopefully not too far from now, Nigeria will get lucky with the kind of leadership that unlocks economic growth and pulls millions out of poverty (it’s not going[…]
Maybe it’s deliberate, maybe it’s a honest mistake but I’m seeing a lot of arguments being made against the CFTA using arguments against free trade agreements. Don’t worry, I am[…]
“Hate speech”! Almost out of thin air, and over the last two years, we have managed to create a controversy around this concept. In the effort to make sense of[…]
“Culture wars” divide societies as much as they define them. Over the years, in parts of Europe and North America, these intense and often arcane ideological arguments have been prosecuted[…]
A little over a decade ago, the Great Recession was in its birth throes. Across the globe, there was no consensus over the nature of the beast that was going[…]
This time, you don’t have to flip through the pages of the newspapers. A brief look through the inbox would do just as well. The profusion of links on the[…]
The fact that former president (now “doctor”) Olusegun Obasanjo courts controversy is apodeictic. Hard to agree on, though, is whether the ruckus generated by his recent missive to our incumbent[…]
Those who would defend the Buhari administration against charges of incompetence, invariably offer two explanations for the administration’s apparent failure to deliver on its pre-election promises. The first explanation seeks[…]
The U.S. president may (or may not) have described some countries from which migrants reach his country as “shit-holes”. (On the balance of evidence — Mr. Donald Trump’s penchant for[…]
The fuel queues that suddenly re-emerged in the dying days of last year have hurt in many ways. The obvious ones we are now familiar with. Yet, the feeling of[…]
Europe has made a fuss about the Mediterranean crossing. It has beefed up its policing off the waters of Italy; supported coastguard operations in Libya; and offered sweeteners to source[…]
As if we needed reminding? For those who have not paid much heed (especially by ignoring the signals from reading between the lines of official statistics on the economy), and[…]
Two weeks ago, I was concerned (on these pages) with how much of a vindication of the incumbent administration’s macroeconomic choices the renewed inflow of foreign portfolio investments (FPI) into[…]
Fuel queues are back. And they have never looked more unseemly. No less predictably, the federal government has folded itself in interesting shapes trying to explain away this perennial symptom[…]
