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Making sense of the electric vehicle bill, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Nov. 10 -- If the Senate Committee on Industry completes its review on time, then, the Electric Vehicle Transition and Green Mobility Bill 2025 should be back to the upper legislative chamber... Read More


Corporate cultures, culturing corporates, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Nov. 3 -- Of the 30 years in which I worked in the private sector in Nigeria, the nonstop debates around culture tickled me the most. Organisations took the matter seriously. There was a clea... Read More


Nigeria incorporated, too big to jail, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Oct. 27 -- In my almost thirty years of work as a foot soldier in Nigeria Incorporated I learnt lessons galore. A few of the instructions have been handy. Contrast the plainness of the fact t... Read More


What to make of the populist nationalist challenge to democracy, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Oct. 13 -- The global response to Israel's two-year war against fighters of The Islamic Resistance Movement (better known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas) in Gaza, underscores an old, and in tod... Read More


An agenda for reform II, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Oct. 6 -- Up until now, the Tinubu government has focused on reforms with a near-term impact: exchange rate and monetary reform; inflation control and fiscal coordination; subsidy rationalisa... Read More


Q2 2025, GDP numbers - whatdunnit?, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Sept. 29 -- Possibly the biggest snag to analysing the performance of the incumbent Bola Tinubu-led federal government is the tendency to do this against the backdrop provided by the Buhari-E... Read More


Import substitution industrialisation, sheer nuts?, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Sept. 15 -- A couple of years ago, it was not just that under import substitution industrialisation (ISI) coddled industries became inefficient and uncompetitive. Nor that a balance of paymen... Read More


An agenda for reform, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Sept. 8 -- Ironic? Yes. But Nigeria's long-term heritage from the boom days of its export of crude oil are the structural weaknesses that hold its economy back today. Now and again, this mala... Read More


The limits to airplane-driven trade policymaking, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Nigeria, Sept. 1 -- The purpose of the "airplane-driven trade policymaking" that the federal government embarked upon last week was to underscore Nigeria's growing allure as an investment destination.... Read More


Inflation and trust in the naira, By Uddin Ifeanyi

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