In Search of New Scapegoats
My attention was drawn, last week, to the possibility that the American government may be behind the random acts of barbarity in increasingly large swathes of Northern Nigeria that have,[…]
Author: Ifeanyi Uddin
Reforming Our Universities
Decades after its ouster from office, the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) administration remains one of the most steeped in controversy in Nigeria. How much of the country’s current baseness is[…]
The Business of Policy Making
Last week, the federal government upped the policy ante. In the wake of the recent launch of a national automotive policy, its inauguration of the Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan and[…]
Accounting For Crude Oil Sales And Revenues
Why does it matter that the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has indicated accounting sleights of hand at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)?[…]
The MPC’s Effect On The Domestic Balloon
At its first meeting this year, held Monday last week in Abuja, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee — MPC) opted to tighten monetary policy.[…]
On Today’s Meeting of the MPC – Matters Arising
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting body, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets today, under a cloud. The mass of gray overhead has nothing to do with the recent[…]
The CBN and Institution Building
The pyrotechnics notwithstanding, the hijinks last week around the fate in office of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), did have a useful part. For an economy[…]
Osun State And The Church
Why would the government of Osun State build a church? Why would any government build a place of worship, at all? In today’s plural, interconnected spaces, I cannot conceive of[…]
Of Pangolins And The African Capacity To Consume Everything
August this year, I spent a couple of days in London. I hate traveling. So the period spent away from home was not much fun. Then there was the added[…]
A Minister, The Budget, And Our Expectations
The run up to the end of this year has been a season of high-wire performances across the land. The theatrics have ranged from the wretched to the extremely commonplace;[…]