Nigeria and Infrastructure Regulation
I have often wondered what the world was like before social media. The ease with which user-generated content is created and exchanged on the web has rendered timelines the new[…]
Author: Ifeanyi Uddin
The CBN’s Currency Restructuring Exercise: Matters Arising
Much of the ensuing conversation since the CBN governor announced plans, a week ago, to restructure the naira has dwelt on the decision to introduce higher denomination banknotes. The cons[…]
KPIs and Government Ministers
It was with mixed feelings that I read in the papers recently that President Jonathan had signed performance contracts with members of his cabinet, in a bid, as one such[…]
An “Africanist” take on Development
Across the road on the Marina, within earshot of the popular bukka “under the bridge”, the authorities, not too long ago, put a zebra crossing. And for good measure too.[…]
An Olympian Let Down
Usually, we get by with the “Supporters’ Club” enthusiastically launching into a refrain that is fast becoming shorthand for our tunnel-visioned and spendthrift ways. However, at this Olympics, something gave.[…]
Doing Business in Nigeria
Nigeria! Accursed and beloved in the same breath! In the teeth of some of the most incompetent and corrupt leadership to be met with anywhere in the world, examples abound of[…]
The IMF and the Rest of Us
February 28 this year, the IMF posted a public information notice (PIN) on its website, to the effect that its Executive Board concluded the 2011 Article IV consultation with Nigeria[…]
On The National Debt
A couple of pre-discussion clarifications. There is a proper context to Polonius’ oft-quoted admonition (Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”) to his son Laertes: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft[…]
Omo wa ni, é jé o se!
One of the more difficult (at a personal level at least) aspects of the Nigerian dilemma is the fact that we still have debates in which strong entrenched positions about[…]
The Fisherman’s Heirs
Over the past week, I have been at the receiving end of a most cruel and unusual punishment: sleep deprivation! Now, familiar though this torture style might sound, I do[…]