Nigeria, Aug. 25 -- About a week ago, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the inflation figures for last month. According to our official bean counters, "In July 2025, the headline inflat... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 11 -- I still have not gotten round to reading Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. My copy of the economics classic has spent half-a-lifetime on my "To-read" list, by the way... Read More
Nigeria, Aug. 4 -- The "6th Floor" is how current usage describes it. And I can only imagine that the association with the upward movement of the lift in many modern high-rise buildings is intended. I... Read More
Nigeria, July 28 -- You can be forgiven for thinking that poor governance is a Nigerian. Take a walk down any Nigerian street in any town of your choice, and the disregard with which want and degradat... Read More
Nigeria, July 21 -- In one of those banana republics in South America, . or was it a petrodollar state in Africa? I am not certain which it was, now. Truth, though is, what does it matter? The story i... Read More
Nigeria, July 7 -- Politics is a game of difference. Two differences, in fact. There is the implied difference between the aggregated interest groups (political parties?) that contend for the popular ... Read More
Nigeria, June 30 -- Zohran Kwame Mamdani's victory in the primary election to pick the Democratic Party's candidate for New York's mayor in elections to be held in November, has been extensively parse... Read More
Nigeria, June 23 -- For Odysseus, there was Scylla; and there was Charybdis. For today's adventurer, the odds are slightly different, though. Still, the devil on one hand and the deep blue sea on the ... Read More