As a former General in the Nigerian Army – one who attended the US Army War College alongside a number of local and foreign elite training programmes – President Muhammadu Buhari must be a strategist, right? But the strategy he has adopted for delivering on the economy now that he is a civilian president must...
I was graciously invited by the Economics students of the great University of Ilorin for their yearly NESA week, to which other Economics students were also invited. I took the opportunity to re-familiarise myself with Ilorin, which I hadn’t been to since my friend got married over a decade ago. But more importantly, it is...
The Federal Government, after a meeting with unions, NNPC and other stakeholders, yesterday announced that it will now ‘fully deregulate’ Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) prices, because it has come to the conclusion that Nigeria cannot continue subsidising that subsector, among other reasons. This action has met with kudos from many quarters, and knocks from others....
An Age is called ‘Dark’, not because the Sun refused to shine, but because people refused to see it – James Michener. I’ve been meaning to write on this topic since forever. I know it will be controversial because I am sure we Africans don’t take criticisms in our strides. But this is a continuation...
Logic will take you from point A to point B… but Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein. While the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala once brought two big cakes to a budget presentation. That must have been 2014. She wanted to indicate how the ‘rebasing’ of...
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