Reforming Our Universities
Decades after its ouster from office, the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) administration remains one of the most steeped in controversy in Nigeria. How much of the country’s current baseness is[…]
Category: Economy
The Case Against Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – Akin Oyebode
I do not come to venerate Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, for he is not a saint. As much as I admire him, there are flaws too obvious to ignore. But this[…]
The Business of Policy Making
Last week, the federal government upped the policy ante. In the wake of the recent launch of a national automotive policy, its inauguration of the Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan and[…]
GDP Rebasing and Reality: The Nigerian Story – Feyi Fawehinmi
Rebasing an economy is something that ought to pass without fanfare. Everyone does it periodically. For example, the UK and Canada rebase their GDP calculations every 5 years. How then[…]
Accounting For Crude Oil Sales And Revenues
Why does it matter that the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has indicated accounting sleights of hand at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)?[…]
The MPC’s Effect On The Domestic Balloon
At its first meeting this year, held Monday last week in Abuja, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee — MPC) opted to tighten monetary policy.[…]
On Today’s Meeting of the MPC – Matters Arising
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting body, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets today, under a cloud. The mass of gray overhead has nothing to do with the recent[…]
The CBN and Institution Building
The pyrotechnics notwithstanding, the hijinks last week around the fate in office of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), did have a useful part. For an economy[…]
Auto Policy: So I Spoke To Aganga… – Seyi Fawehinmi
I got a message a couple of days from someone who’s worked with Olusegun Aganga in the past. He said he had read my blog posts on the auto policy[…]
Osun State And The Church
Why would the government of Osun State build a church? Why would any government build a place of worship, at all? In today’s plural, interconnected spaces, I cannot conceive of[…]