Out on housekeeping chores Saturday, I’d barely gotten out of my vehicle at the dry cleaner’s when I was accosted by this bedraggled middle-aged female importuning me for N200 with[…]

That Nigerian politicians are venal, and may be easily suborned, isn’t as serious a charge as it appears when, first, one encounters it. Emerging markets and developing economies are replete[…]

Information and culture minister, Lai Mohammed’s address to the biennial convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors was the latest installment in a series of comments by government officials on[…]

If there is that quality about the Nigerian state that is no longer in doubt, it must be the fact that we are a nation of visionaries. This national failing[…]

What to make of falling domestic prices since the beginning of this year? The latter part of this query is the tale told by recent data on the consumer price[…]

“That night before the meeting, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, whom I had visited two years before, gave us a banquet in the hotel. Raja and I were seated opposite a[…]

I must confess to having looked forward to the publication of details of the IMF’s 2017 Article IV Consultation with Nigeria. For a variety of reasons, really. The fourth article[…]

Everywhere I went last week, talk was all about how the naira was making a remarkable recovery. How doomsday prophets have been shamed. And, how, finally, the central bank appears[…]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting body (the Monetary Policy Committee – MPC) meets today and tomorrow, to agree policy responses to domestic monetary conditions. And it could be[…]

My first thoughts on encountering the National Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (NERGP) was that, at 142 pages, it was always going to be a difficult read. Upon reflection, however,[…]