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[…]

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[…]