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[…]

Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) happens when foreigners’ claims on domestic resources are inflowed through securities (including government borrowing) and equity. It is different in this sense from more direct types[…]

Of late, news about the domestic economy have been nearly all positive. Since the beginning of this year, headline inflation (measured on a year-on-year basis) has slowed every month, coming[…]

One of the more difficult responses that I have had to make in recent times was to last week’s military-led events in Zimbabwe. Since becoming prime minister in 1980 (after[…]

Can we legitimately compare children who grew up in an era when television stations opened at 6.00pm and went to bed at 10.00pm with kids whose notion of the television[…]

If all goes according to schedule, sometime this week, President Muhammadu Buhari will present details of his government’s tax and spend plans for fiscal 2018 to the national assembly. However,[…]

I have spent much of my time reflecting on the optimal fix for Nigeria ruminating on a single question. “How much of the difficulties faced by the country today is[…]

Sitting in on a discussion last week around the state of education in the country was a disturbing experience. The easiest part was reaching agreement on the fact that the[…]

One of the more colourful tales of corruption out of Nigeria, “Clean Sweep Ignatius”, was written by Jeffrey Archer. Admittedly, The Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, may himself have had a[…]