One of the bigger worries with committing to write a weekly column for a newspaper are three related presumptions. The first, and arguably less immediate one is that one will[…]

Two seemingly unrelated reports, last week, by Bloomberg painted a rather gloomy picture of the outlook for the Nigerian economy. The first one was on how foreign investment in the[…]

In conversations about the economy, today, the travails of the domestic foreign exchange markets are likelier to be at the fore and centre. The naira has been in freefall since[…]

The call by the finance minister on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the latter to reduce its benchmark rates was always going to make the CBN’s management of[…]

Ahead of the commencement this morning of the meeting of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee, the relevant echo chambers resonated with calls for the apex bank to[…]

Without doubt, President’s Buhari’s speech at the launch, Thursday, last week, of the National Orientation Agency’s (NOA) new re-orientation campaign (under the rubric “Change Begins With Me”) was a period-defining[…]

When, recently, the Emir of Kano weighed in on the parlous state of the domestic economy, the obstreperousness of the response to his contribution threatened to drown out the pith[…]

Meetings of Community Development Associations (CDAs) are interesting affairs. Almost without fail, these gatherings mimic the larger space within which they take place — at least so does the one[…]

Last week, I was on the listening end of an engaging online exchange. It began with someone on my timeline worrying over the propriety of the call by sub-national governments[…]

Essentially, the argument over the extent of the Buhari administration’s culpability for the depths of our current economic crisis depends on how one answers to the question: Do we think[…]