Re-aligning Domestic Policy Making
In a meeting last week with personnel from one of the bigger investment banking outfits operating out of the United States of America, I was gifted an insight into the[…]
Are we listening?
In a meeting last week with personnel from one of the bigger investment banking outfits operating out of the United States of America, I was gifted an insight into the[…]
The Federal government is apparently considering returning tolls to highways it maintains as a means of ensuring that these remain in good repair. The South African government, recently having introduced[…]
Much debate has attended the conduct of “supplementary polls” over the weekend for election to the office of governor for Anambra State. Part of the problem is that no one[…]
Over the last few months, I have been involved in a running conversation with a friend. About Nigeria, of course. Sometimes very intense, but occasionally light-hearted, the talk has turned[…]
Isn’t it strange that the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets today, and the economy’s outlook is the least important of the considerations on the talking[…]
Even as we struggle to make meaning of the country’s dire economic straits, it was without doubt a high watermark in the evolution of the financial services industry. Two discount[…]
Are there doubts about the record of the current federal government? Yes. Its boosters point to a succession of stellar achievements in support of their claim that the larger portion[…]
What is the problem with Nigeria? For good reasons, there are as many answers to this question, as there are persons who have given it a thought. Still, it helps[…]
By definition, an “Act of God” absolves each one of us of personal responsibility. If God wills it, what does it matter what I do, think or say? I cannot[…]
Last week, I was concerned with how much the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) recent measures for managing the demand for and supply of foreign exchange speak to a macroeconomic[…]