Sitting in on a discussion last week around the state of education in the country was a disturbing experience. The easiest part was reaching agreement on the fact that the[…]

One of the more colourful tales of corruption out of Nigeria, “Clean Sweep Ignatius”, was written by Jeffrey Archer. Admittedly, The Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, may himself have had a[…]

Did the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) break the law in the amount of credit it has extended, so far, this year, to the federal government to help the latter[…]

The conversation ahead of last week’s meeting of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was taken up by speculation around the direction of movement in the[…]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) policy-making committee (the Monetary Policy Committee — MPC) meets this morning, and into afternoon, Tuesday. Not long ago, an impending meeting of the MPC[…]

A set-piece was missing from the national response to data released (last week) by the official bean counters to the effect that domestic output grew by 0.55% (on an annual[…]

You do not have to be partisan in the debate (on social media, last week) over whether the annulment by the Kenyan Supreme Court (also last week) of the result[…]

When (last week) the federal government gave new guidance on its heightened intolerance of “hate speech”, and a part of the Nigerian Army revealed that it is assiduously monitoring social[…]

Last week two distressful incidents struck different parts of the world in very different circumstances. Barcelona saw the Islamic State claim a terror act on a favourite tourist haunt which[…]

That we make so much of our “culture” ought, on balance, not to be a problem. Given how little we’ve been able to collectively push the needle in other fields[…]