I spent the last couple of days mulling over the relationship between domestic savings and investment on one hand, and the outlook for growth for this country on the other.[…]

The ongoing labour dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and their employer, the federal government of Nigeria, could not have come at a more ominous time. And[…]

The one fact that is beyond dispute about the meeting, last week, of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee (the MPC) is that its main decision took everyone[…]

Why should the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee not raise the policy rate at its meeting this week? The CBN’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets (today and tomorrow)[…]

I am persuaded (appearances notwithstanding, and despite the seeming exertions of key personnel) that the incumbent administration at the federal level has not succeeded along as many dimensions of our[…]

At a private breakfast mid-last week, I was run over by a fable on the character of one of the main problems confronting project Nigeria: corruption. Responding to an ad[…]

The newspapers last week, were full of plaints by a senior minister (at the centre). The main charge? Apparently, successive attempts by the central government to set up a “rainy[…]