Africa, unfortunately, cannot afford this new distraction. Half-a-century ago, the Cold War was the biggest variable in the continent's leaders’ ...
CBN’s promo initiative touched on yields on money market... couldn't the apex bank have achieved more were domestic interest rates ...
Popular anger is easily deflected or channeled towards separatism by pointing at structural obstacles in the way the state is ...
When plans to convene another talkfest around the seminal questions hemming in our quest for national cohesion were bruited about ...
I have heard expressed a preference for “attitude” over “aptitude”; and I have come to realise that this preference is ...
This month the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee — MPC) meets for the first ...
Anyone who has ever played a game online from a Nigerian IP address would understand the severe limitations of our ...
Thirty seven years ago, I read Peter Enahoro’s book, “How To Be A Nigerian”, for the first time. It was a ...
About a year ago (May 22, 2013) Ben Bernanke, then Chair of the US Federal Reserve System, spooked the markets. ...
"Calm before a raging storm"! This was how a participant at a discussion, last week, described the state of the ...
One of the wackier arguments with which boosters of the Goodluck Jonathan administration have met the charge that his government ...
Can one mourn too much? Are there circumstances in one's life that one ought not to give up on? Are ...
There is no question but that the quality of our national leadership has deteriorated of late. The consequences of these ...
There is no question but that the quality of our national leadership has deteriorated of late. The consequences of these ...
Come St. Valentine’s Day, 2015, I would not vote in the general elections scheduled for that day. I also did ...
There was no question but that the new domestic output numbers for the Nigerian economy was going to attract much ...
So, finally, we are a bigger economy than South Africa. Indeed, at US$509 billion (estimates for last year), we now ...
In the last four years, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has tightened monetary conditions even as inflation moved into ...
The queues are back at the filling stations; and our lived experience has taken a turn for the worse; a ...
The recent spat between the newly appointed defence minister, General Aliyu Gusau (rtd.) and the military chiefs of staff over ...
Each time I read of our governments (central and sub-national) contracting new debt, I cringe. Several years back, a friend ...
My attention was drawn, last week, to the possibility that the American government may be behind the random acts of ...
Decades after its ouster from office, the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) administration remains one of the most steeped in controversy ...
Last week, the federal government upped the policy ante. In the wake of the recent launch of a national automotive ...
Why does it matter that the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has indicated accounting ...
