Economic Liberalisation and the Nanny State
Olumide here. We asked people to send us questions on Nigeria’s development over Twitter. One of the questions, from @EssentialBolu, is: why should we continue to Liberalize our economy& still[…]
Author: Ifeanyi Uddin
How Not to Protect Domestic Industry
When it comes to deciding for or against the adoption of an “industrial policy”, I’m still not sure which part of the divide to plight my troth to. On one[…]
Nigeria: April inflation rate moderates
“The Composite Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 6 percent year-on-year in April 2011. This is lower than 12.8 percent recorded in the previous month in the new CPI series. The[…]
President Jonathan and Command and Control Economics
There was something wrong with news report last night to the effect that President Goodluck Jonathan had decreed a 30-day period within which cement manufacturers in Nigeria have to bring down the price of[…]
Does the Tax payer, pay?
Apropos of the furore over the House of Representative’s alleged N10 billion indebtedness to a local bank, and just after some form of accomodation had apparently been reached at the[…]
Cynicism and The Nigerian State
One of the most pervasive fallacies in the Nigerian narrative, is the one that imputes a lack of knowledge on the part of our policy makers as the bane[…]
Now The Elections Are Over
One of the many imponderables from the results of the voting held in the country throughout April, is why Nigerians returned to office a party with a great history behind it.[…]