The emergence of the online retail business in Nigeria was always going to upset a few established practices. One big question centered on how online retailing would play in the[…]

There is this local quirk which never ceases to amuse (and amaze) me. A robust capacity for mimesis ensures that no sooner is the sod turned on some groundbreaking activity,[…]

One advantage of shopping on-line is the sheer convenience of it all. It used to be something one did from a straight-backed chair across from a personal computer. And that[…]

Of late, bank customers in the country have had cause to smile on their way to the banks. Courtesy of recent central bank directives to the banks, they are being[…]

What is the purpose of government? Given the intensity of the arguments on all sides of this question, I suppose that discussion around it has been with us for as[…]

The judgment, last week, of a federal high court, in which it found (amongst others) government’s deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry “unlawful, illegal, null,[…]

In the first week of February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the country’s trade figures for last year. Importantly, we appeared to have sold more last year (N22.45tn)[…]

The strongest case for second-guessing the Monetary Policy Committee’s (the MPC is the Central Bank of Nigeria’s rate-setting arm) likely decision(s) when it meets Monday, next week, was made almost[…]

The recent resolution by the House of Representatives calling on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop the “dollarisation” of the economy is indicative of how poorly the economy[…]

Late last week, a young female friend walked into my office. It was early morning. Not unusual in itself, this visit. But her face, that day, was a study in[…]