Since the incumbent government’s accession to office, the responses to the foreign currency-induced part of the nation’s current economic crisis have ranged from mild (import substitution) to outlandish (arguments for[…]

At ₦7.298 trillion, the 2017 budget bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 is the biggest ever put forward by any government[…]

Darkening clouds continue to gather over Nigeria’s horizon. And this is not just because the Buhari administration has been brutally inept in its management of the national space — midway[…]

The decision, last week, by member countries of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to trim global oil production by 1.2 million barrels per day (mb/d) was much[…]

Over the last six months, I gradually reached the point where I forswore further commentary on monetary policy. Yes, I do admit that part of my difficulty with the way[…]

Moderating a discussion session two Sundays ago, on the sidelines of the 18th Lagos Book and Art Festival, it was easier to understand how a simple proposition could be infused[…]

Attempts to understand, to explain, even, the people, processes, and things leading up to last week Tuesday’s epochal presidential vote in the United States of America have leaned surreptitiously on[…]

Up against a flagging economy, and regularly alarmed by the clumsy responses of government across the three tiers, a certain cohort of Nigerians has despaired of the Buhari administration. Yet,[…]

Several years ago, a visibly exasperated President Ibrahim Babangida argued that Nigeria defies economic logic. You simply could not, therefore, interrogate a domestic economic concern, and apply solutions from the[…]

From May 29th last year, the incumbent administration had 16 quarters within which to redress the fortunes of the economy. Any which way this task was contemplated then, it was[…]