Nigeria, June 8 -- The Berlin Conference was a disservice to Africa. Irrespective of whichever echo chamber you stumble into, there is no question about this. What happened there? Apprehensive lest th... Read More
Nigeria, June 1 -- Peek under the buzz around its reform credentials, and the truth is that the Tinubu administration's policies, thus far, have largely favoured the economy's demand side - an increas... Read More
Nigeria, May 25 -- There is nothing intrinsically wrong with borrowing money. This is without prejudice to whether the would-be debtor or mortgagor is an individual, a corporation, or a government. Wh... Read More
Nigeria, May 11 -- The Tinubu government has, almost certainly, made changes to the Nigerian economy. Depending on where you are looking at these changes from, they have been audacious, as in the deci... Read More
Nigeria, April 27 -- In their respective ways, the wars in Europe (the consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine) and the Middle East (the outcome of the US and Israel's invasion of Iran) tell a val... Read More
Nigeria, April 20 -- "In Nigeria, growth momentum is sustained at 4.1 percent in 2026, supported by improved macroeconomic stability and positive terms-of-trade effects, while higher goods and transpo... Read More
Nigeria, April 13 -- The world over, there are few sentiments more angsty (antsy, even) than the chuntering, in liberal circles, over the recent rapid erosion (and impending failure) of the post-1945 ... Read More
Nigeria, April 6 -- Next year, the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) enabling law turns twenty. Its scorecard is mixed. As the product of a democratic civilian government (the 1999 statute that it repla... Read More
Nigeria, March 16 -- Reflecting on my approximately thirty years of work in the organised private sector in Nigeria, one thing that is clear is how so like my previous seven years of work in the feder... Read More