Recent conversations around how unwashed my vehicle sometimes appears underscored how, even amongst those who ought to know, concern for resource use is the least of our worries. In these[…]

Mid-last week, the naira rallied very strongly against the dollar — recovering close to 10% of its value. As the week wound to a close, word on the street was[…]

The naira, last week, ambled past the US$1:N500 mark. Not much to worry over if you share the opinion (quite popular in our official circles) that the black market is[…]

That Nigeria’s first foray into the international capital markets in over four years was a qualified success is not in doubt. Nor is it surprising that the fact of the[…]

Speculation about the 2017 appropriation bill — how soon it will be enacted, and what its likely impact on domestic output would be — has been a staple of financial[…]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee met last week. And, despite the toll that both a depreciating naira and rising domestic prices are taking on consumer welfare (and[…]

News out of and about Nigeria, last week, was largely upbeat. Chances of the 2017 appropriation bill being passed a lot earlier than has been the norm since 1999, were[…]

That the Buhari administration has a sense of humour is no longer in doubt. However, when one considers how dreary the outlook on the country must look from its vantage,[…]

When, late 2016, the rumour made the rounds that the Buhari administration was looking to a refresh of its cabinet this year, the buzz around the prospect of new blood[…]

The sense of 2016 as an annus mirabilis apparently rests on just two events: Brexit — the vote by the U.K. to leave the European Union after 43 years of[…]