The media were awash, last week, with news of the federal government’s decision to turn to “economic experts” to help it out of the cul-de-sac into which it has run[…]

One of the tougher decisions, which most Nigerians have to make on a daily basis is the one that commits to above-board general conduct. In other words, to do “proper[…]

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets today and tomorrow amidst a growing consensus on its impotence in the face of the major economic pressure points facing the economy. The economic[…]

A fondness for bolting the stable doors days after the horses have fled has long been a local shortcoming. The Buhari administration has, however, elevated this national penchant to statecraft.[…]

Can governments be business-friendly while remaining hostile to properly functioning markets? Both the crises currently confronting the economy and the laboured response of the incumbent federal government to these strip[…]

It would seem that a crisis afflicts the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) recently re-introduced interbank market for foreign exchange. Given the paucity of funds available to the central bank[…]

In the immediate aftermath of comments by Ben Bernanke on May 21, 2013 indicating that the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (the board of which he was then chair of) was[…]

For the second time in as many months, I find myself in near complete agreement with the policy thrust of the incumbent administration. One may cavil at the elaborate procedures[…]

For a government that came in to office on the back of its “change” credentials, the Buhari administration is a pretty conservative animal. Its gut instincts are to keep the[…]

I could not conceive of a better opening for this piece than the following fable. A colleague (we will call him “Abu-Bakr” for convenience) is informed that he has won[…]