That Nigeria’s first foray into the international capital markets in over four years was a qualified success is not in doubt. Nor is it surprising that the fact of the[…]

Speculation about the 2017 appropriation bill — how soon it will be enacted, and what its likely impact on domestic output would be — has been a staple of financial[…]

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee met last week. And, despite the toll that both a depreciating naira and rising domestic prices are taking on consumer welfare (and[…]

News out of and about Nigeria, last week, was largely upbeat. Chances of the 2017 appropriation bill being passed a lot earlier than has been the norm since 1999, were[…]

That the Buhari administration has a sense of humour is no longer in doubt. However, when one considers how dreary the outlook on the country must look from its vantage,[…]

When, late 2016, the rumour made the rounds that the Buhari administration was looking to a refresh of its cabinet this year, the buzz around the prospect of new blood[…]

The sense of 2016 as an annus mirabilis apparently rests on just two events: Brexit — the vote by the U.K. to leave the European Union after 43 years of[…]

Since the incumbent government’s accession to office, the responses to the foreign currency-induced part of the nation’s current economic crisis have ranged from mild (import substitution) to outlandish (arguments for[…]

At ₦7.298 trillion, the 2017 budget bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 is the biggest ever put forward by any government[…]

Darkening clouds continue to gather over Nigeria’s horizon. And this is not just because the Buhari administration has been brutally inept in its management of the national space — midway[…]