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Economics as a subject could be pretty recondite. Try making sense of the numbers off a regression analysis, for instance. In addition, it has not helped that mathematicians and others[…]
In hoping, several months back, that the elections this year would lead to a change of guards at the centre, most Nigerians were responding (in part), it now seems, to[…]
After the euphoria that characterised the inauguration of a new federal government last Friday, and the partying that would have marked its immediate aftermath, attention gradually turns to the design[…]
The confusion surrounding last week’s decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee — MPC) to harmonise the cash reserve requirement (CRR) for banks[…]
To look at the country today, it is hard to believe that parts of Nigeria once moved to a different rhythm. That whole communities once set their clock by the[…]
It is something of a paradox, but the current fuel scarcity and the myriad adverse externalities it is supporting present a unique chance to re-write the terms of our domestic[…]
With 541 federal ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) (as at end-December 2014), it is no surprise that the burden of governance has become disproportionately high in Nigeria. When over the[…]
The recent bobbery over DStv’s — a direct to home satellite television broadcaster — decision earlier this year to raise its subscription rates underscored how poorly the larger number of[…]
Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) once again underscored the limits of administrative intervention in support of prices in any market. In a circular to authorised dealers (presumably[…]
In the end, this dead cat did bounce. But not for the reasons being bruited about. Nothing about General Muhammed Buhari’s election victory altered the fundamentals of the economy. Oil[…]