The decision, last week, by member countries of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to trim global oil production by 1.2 million barrels per day (mb/d) was much[…]

Over the last six months, I gradually reached the point where I forswore further commentary on monetary policy. Yes, I do admit that part of my difficulty with the way[…]

Moderating a discussion session two Sundays ago, on the sidelines of the 18th Lagos Book and Art Festival, it was easier to understand how a simple proposition could be infused[…]

Attempts to understand, to explain, even, the people, processes, and things leading up to last week Tuesday’s epochal presidential vote in the United States of America have leaned surreptitiously on[…]

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[…]