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There has been this unnecessary brouhaha surrounding the decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop selling cheap foreign exchange to importers of certain items, including (you won’t believe this), eggs, milk, furniture, rice, private jets, and of course, those who want to invest in Eurobonds and some other financial market instruments, and...

Thinking about the current story about the Police Service Commission in Nigeria, wherein the Chairman, a former Inspector General of Police, Senator Mike Okiro, is being accused, on the back of revelations by an insider, concerning different kinds of manipulation of their training vote, I think this is an opportune moment to tackle an issue...

Right now, we are on a downward spiral on both fronts – security and the economy. The trick to our economic renaissance does not lie in foreign direct investment (those will come if we have good security and our human capital is ready). Neither will we find the solution by racking up more debts. The...

I feel like a woman in a manic relationship. Used and abused. Traumatised, despoiled, raped and insulted. On a daily basis. I wish i could find another partner. But for me, Nigeria is the only option i have. Hence i trudge on, hoping one day I will see the back of the enemies with whom...

yes, there could be as much as N30trilion missing in this country. or embezzled already. you are talking of budget? pls investigate that budget. soludo knows what he is talking about. i didn’t take it serious but two days after his allegation, the FIRS declared it collected taxes worth N4.69trillion in 2014. Something pricked me,...

The least awful A former dictator is a better choice than a failed president Feb 7th 2015 | From the print edition SOMETIMES there are no good options. Nigeria goes to the polls on February 14th to elect the next president, who will face problems so large—from rampant corruption to a jihadist insurgency—that they could...

The debate around Professor Charles Soludo’s many bombshells is yet to end. In fact, it gets more intriguing by the day. Initially, it was about the general mismanagement of the economy and the ‘refusal’ of the two main political parties angling for the leadership of this country to put financing at the forefront of their...

I am not a perfectionist. I don’t believe things should be entirely spick and span. But I know sure signs of progress and regression. The Chinese built the Abuja Airport. With the tiles and lighting they put in it, the airport does shine sometimes. We are using perhaps 10% of the capacity of the airport...

This debate has seen a lot of casualties. Among them James Watson (pioneer of DNA), Sam Harris, Charles Murray (The Bell Curve), William Shockley (a Nobel laureate in physics), Amy Wax (professor at U-Penn) and Nicholas Wade among others  I call them victims as some of them have been stripped of titles and lampooned on...

What else can the 2015 elections in Nigeria be about, but the economy? The phrase, which was coined by James Carville for the Bill Clinton 1992 campaign and which played a huge role in upstaging George H. W. Clinton, could not have been more relevant in our clime than it is today.   Many Nigerians...