Nigeria, between the Venal and the Effete
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,[…]
Nigerians as an Exceptional Folk
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[…]
Reforming Our Economic Management Team
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[…]
Post-Factual Politics and Nigeria’s Echo Chambers
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[…]
Foreign Investors and Nigeria
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[…]
Informal Markets and the Naira
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 Worst Is Yet To Come
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[…]
Agriculture In Nigeria: Follow The Money
I take the view that planning the future is very hard and you will never have all the information you need for obvious reasons. So when it comes to the[…]
Interest Rates, Up Or Down?
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[…]
Altering How We Change
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[…]