Backstopping The Naira, By Ifeanyi Uddin
About a year ago (May 22, 2013) Ben Bernanke, then Chair of the US Federal Reserve System, spooked the markets. ...
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 ...
At its first meeting this year, held Monday last week in Abuja, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s rate-setting committee (the ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) rate-setting body, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meets today monday 20th January, under a ...
The pyrotechnics notwithstanding, the hijinks last week around the fate in office of the governor of the Central Bank of ...
Why would the government of Osun State build a church? Why would any government build a place of worship, at ...
August this year, I spent a couple of days in London. I hate traveling. So the period spent away from ...
The run up to the end of this year has been a season of high-wire performances across the land. The ...
In a meeting last week with personnel from one of the bigger investment banking outfits operating out of the United ...
The Federal government is apparently considering returning tolls to highways it maintains as a means of ensuring that these remain ...
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