Those bagpipes?! Set against the many difficulties confronting the Nigerian state, it does come across a wee bit crass to cavil at the fact that on his return from one[…]

Mid-last week, the naira’s exchange rate saw more movement in one day than it has experienced in any 24-hour period in the last 5 years. There was some element of[…]

For a while now, I have been regularly blind-sided by the policy choices preferred by the Buhari administration: an aversion to market solutions in tackling the supply/demand imbalance weighing on[…]

To devalue the naira; or not? This dilemma has powered most conversations and arguments in the country over the last week. In the “red corner” we have had those who[…]

There are 2 reasons why the meeting (today and tomorrow) of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee – MPC) may leave the policy rate[…]

When, mid-2015, just about every Nigerian bank declared that “the large volume of foreign currencies in their vaults” allowed them to “stop accepting foreign currency cash deposits into customers’ domiciliary[…]

Another week. Another Monday. What to write about? I imagine most newspaper columnists have to confront this poser at least weekly. Two facts render the process of fashioning a response[…]

The federal government has made much of its savings from implementing the treasury single account (TSA). Depending on which functionary you listen to, not just has government boosted its revenue[…]

Finally, the Buhari administration finds the will to bite one of several bullets it perforce has to confront in the next 3 years if its “change” watchword is not to[…]

At a filling station, Sunday morning — I was on the queue for the better part of two hours, having woken up at first light to avoid the pandemonium that[…]