Had an interesting encounter this morning. Most unusually, I stood briefly at the cusp of two trends that should shape banking services in Nigeria over the next five years. I was[…]

One of the unsolved mysteries in the Nigerian economy is the fact that in spite (or because) of a succession of reforms to the banking sub-sector we have yet to[…]

I’m reading commentary on the denouement the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) just engineered in the nation’s banking space, and it’s déjà vu and ennui together, all over again! “Size”[…]

The problem with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is that it is in “guerilla” mode. Ceaselessly striving to blind-side pockets of resistance to its attempts at repairing/reforming the banking[…]

Suddenly, it is no fun anymore commenting on the policy direction of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee ― the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). (Now that I think[…]

The strongest lesson yet from the recent impasse between the labour federations on one hand, and both the federal and state governments on the other, over whether or not (and[…]

Why would anyone, aware of the diverse investment opportunities available in today’s financial services space opt to salt his/her savings away in a non-interest bearing facility? Anyway you choose to[…]