Banking Digital Disrupters
Much has been made of how the revolution in information and communications technology (ICT) has helped improve the ease of access to and convenience of use of services across economies[…]
Are we listening?
Much has been made of how the revolution in information and communications technology (ICT) has helped improve the ease of access to and convenience of use of services across economies[…]
The markets! We make so much about the usefulness of this tool, we who regularly angle for either their introduction, or their strengthening. If the central narrative of this perspective[…]
In the end, it would seem that the markets were not as sanguine (as was the Central Bank of Nigeria —CBN) about the implications for the economy of JPMorgan’s decision,[…]
In 1986 (December), Chu S. P. Okongwu, an atypical cerebral-type who was Minister of Finance and National Planning with the Ibrahim Babangida administration wrote a tome in which he examined[…]
“We are not feeling good that we are still outside the 2,000 mark for the world. Out of the 1,000 global universities there are only five African universities, three from[…]
What to do, when one of the country’s leading online retail shopping outlets suddenly insists that for orders above N100,000 patrons are now required to pay 50% upfront before items[…]
“Industrial policy”, more than any other aspect of our domestic portfolio of policies, reveals the true nature of the Nigerian state. When it comes to outlining this policy’s prescriptions for[…]
In search of further evidence of how conflicted Nigeria has become, one could do no worse than point at the recent machinations at the National Assembly. The immediate tension in[…]
Once the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) opted to put off by a couple of days the planned meeting of its rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee ― MPC) in[…]
The difficulties which provincial governments have had with paying public sector salaries since the mid-2014 collapse of global oil prices is a multi-themed parable. On one hand, there is the[…]