The Arab Spring and the Imperative of Good Governance
What is the Arab Spring? The successive wave of protests and demonstrations, which since Saturday, December 18, 2011, have seen governments in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region[…]
Author: Ifeanyi Uddin
The New Inflation Figures
Much of the debate ahead of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s surreptitious removal of the “subsidy” on the pump-station prices of petrol at the beginning of the year concentrated on[…]
Nigeria’s Budget 2012 – Terribly Competitive for Low-Income People
Additional evidence of the possibility that the road to perdition may be paved with noble intentions was provided by President Jonathan’s 2012 budget speech to the joint session of the National[…]
After Monday’s Meeting of the MPC
As expected the Central Bank of Nigeria’s rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee – MPC), after its Monday meeting, left its policy rate unchanged at 12%. The consensus view of[…]
Nigeria’s New Inflation (November 2011) Figures
Ahead of next week’s meeting of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee (the MPC), inflation numbers have worsened. The national bean counter (the NBS) indicates that, on a[…]
Our Day of Atonement!
The truth about Nigeria is that we are on average a very badly behaved people. And this is irrespective of which sector of the economy one chooses to look at.[…]
All Shock and no Therapy?
by Ifeanyi Uddin
On the decisions at the MPC meeting
Extra-ordinary Meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
by Ifeanyi Uddin
What is there in today’s market mix that was not there three weeks ago?
Understanding the Sovereign Wealth Fund
by Ifeanyi Uddin
On the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund
After Monday’s MPC Meeting
by Ifeanyi Uddin
How much of an effect would the MPC’s decision have on the stability of domestic prices?