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.[…]
Category: Analysis
This cassava bread matter . . . – Salisu Suleiman
If there is anything symbolic of the warped, one-directional and ultimately, fruitless process of policy-making and implementation in Nigeria, it must be the federal government’s obsession with cassava bread, and[…]
What Price, Culture? – Eloho Omowande Omame
The world is talking about the recent signing into law of Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage Prohibition bill. Perhaps unsurprisingly, significantly more of us Nigerians seem to be in support of[…]
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[…]
Nigeria: Where thieves are rewarded – Salisu Suleiman
Last week’s piece on the attitude of Nigerian motorists elicited a number of responses. A few felt I hadn’t treated the topic in sufficient depth. Others shared their experiences about[…]
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[…]
The ‘Nigerian factor’ on our roads – Salisu Suleiman
If one of the justifications for moving Nigeria’s capital from Lagos to Abuja was the intractable traffic jams in the former, then recent events in both cities have clearly proved[…]
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[…]
From Nnewi To The World: With Apologies, My Alternative Auto Policy
I know I know. Yoruba people say you shouldnt go back to say ‘Good evening’ in a place where you have already said ‘Good night’. I did in fact promise[…]