Banks and Public Finances, By Ifeanyi Uddin
One of the more interesting aspects of the last global financial and economic crisis was the way in which the...
Making Sense of the CBN’s New Capital Adequacy Requirements, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) toughened its regulatory regime. Its review of risk weights on certain exposures...
Managing the Central Bank: Selecting Lamido Sanusi’s successor, By Ifeanyi Uddin
On balance, therefore, we all have a huge interest in the process for selecting the next central bank governor. That...
Managing Nigeria’s Monetary Policy, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Again, the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee ― MPC) meets this morning. In a...
Hiving-off the Central Bank’s banking supervision department, By Uddin Ifeanyi
AÂ disproportionately large part of the National Assembly's resources was taken up last year with members attempts at altering the...
Helping our people to shop better, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Largely unremarked, despite its disruptive effect on traffic in places like Lagos, a lemming-like rush at retail sales outlets marked...
Reflections on the last twelve months, By Ifeanyi Uddin
An eventful year ends, much as it began — inauspiciously. Which is sad! For we recall the immediate past not...
November Inflation Numbers, What Significance? By Ifeanyi Uddin
Consumer price indices for November (released last week by the National Bureau of Statistics - NBS) confirm what every housewife/home...
Corruption, Nigeria, and the challenge of normalcy, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin: Corruption in Nigeria is not normal. It is the bane of unsung efforts over the years to make...
Why we must restructure government a la Sanusi Lamido, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Once again, SLS (our moniker for Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria ―CBN) walks into a...
The Nigerian economy and the 2013 inflation outlook, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Ifeanyi Uddin argues that the clincher for determining the policy rate over the next six months will be the Nigerian...
To what and how does today’s MPC meeting respond? By Ifeanyi Uddin
Today, two developments (both of them much trailed) will occur. More precisely, one of these events commences, while the other...
Is the Nigerian economy as healthy as the plaudits it is receiving suggest? ByUddin Ifeanyi
Reading through Standard & Poor's recent justification for its decision to raise the economy's foreign- and local-currency sovereign credit ratings,...
Between corruption and efficiency, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Exasperated, we (Nigerians) are wont to describe "corrupt practices" as the only "industry" that thrives in the country. Ignored by...
Obtaining a Handle on the Domestic Economy, By Ifeanyi Uddin
The Sallah holiday weekend was usual in many ways. Electricity supply was epileptic. The fuel scarcity has held out long...
Nigeria’s National Debt: Spending Our Way into a New Bind, By Ifeanyi Uddin
"The more things change, the more they stay the same". Thus, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, commenting several years ago on the...
The benefit of missing the President’s Budget 2013 speech, By Ifeanyi Uddin
It was about 10.00am Wednesday last week that a friend reminded me that Mr. President was before a joint session...
The Market and Fuel Scarcity, By Ifeanyi Uddin
Over the last two weeks, I have bought fuel (in different parts of Lagos) for N105/litre. Two features distinguish the...
Managing monetary policy in trying times, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Arguably, one of the more Augean challenges confronting financial services regulation in the country today, is the ongoing transition in...
CBN’s Sept. MPC meeting and Nigeria’s policy direction, By Uddin Ifeanyi
By how much, for instance, must the CBN move its policy rate in order to have a certain effect on...
Nigeria and Infrastructure Regulation, By Uddin Ifeanyi
I have often wondered what the world was like before social media. The ease with which user-generated content is created...
