The “Change” Processes v. The Imperatives Of A Young Democracy
Did the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) break the law in the amount of credit it has extended, so far, this year, to the federal government to help the latter[…]
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Did the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) break the law in the amount of credit it has extended, so far, this year, to the federal government to help the latter[…]
The conversation ahead of last week’s meeting of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was taken up by speculation around the direction of movement in the[…]
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) policy-making committee (the Monetary Policy Committee — MPC) meets this morning, and into afternoon, Tuesday. Not long ago, an impending meeting of the MPC[…]
A set-piece was missing from the national response to data released (last week) by the official bean counters to the effect that domestic output grew by 0.55% (on an annual[…]
You do not have to be partisan in the debate (on social media, last week) over whether the annulment by the Kenyan Supreme Court (also last week) of the result[…]
When (last week) the federal government gave new guidance on its heightened intolerance of “hate speech”, and a part of the Nigerian Army revealed that it is assiduously monitoring social[…]
Last week two distressful incidents struck different parts of the world in very different circumstances. Barcelona saw the Islamic State claim a terror act on a favourite tourist haunt which[…]
That we make so much of our “culture” ought, on balance, not to be a problem. Given how little we’ve been able to collectively push the needle in other fields[…]
At the height of the cold war, two powerful armies eyeballed each other across the world’s main conflict theatres. Each bristled with enough munitions to destroy the world several times[…]
Arguably more interesting than the current state of the Nigerian economy are the conversations that have arisen on the back of its vicissitudes. One such especially insightful argument is the[…]