Tag: the Nigerian economy

Nigeria has serious problems with corruption and bribery, stealing from government, kidnapping, embezzlement and privateering of collective resources, money laundering, ...

This situation of a diesel price hike provides Nigeria with pains and opportunities. The 'pains' are excruciating and biting hard. ...

If Tinubu can carry through, I will say he has the more radical ideas of the three. Double-digit growth, public ...

...at no time did the VP cause any serious, out-of-the-box ideas to be implemented that will force productivity among Nigerians ...

These days, digitalisation has pervaded the entire gamut of the tourism ecosystem – from the points of desire and research ...

...what is the thing to do? First, we must understand that God has already given us our miraculous breakthroughs. They ...

If a Zapiro sketches that cartoon in Nigeria today, replacing Zuma with Muhammadu Buhari and those groveling assembly with fawners ...

The strategy of relying on SMEs to lift and transform Sub-Saharan African economies is a very much failed one already. Our ...

The Nigerian presidency is serious business. It hurts when charlatans seize the moment to steal a place in the sun. ...

Evidently...next year we will need more that a president with economic nous to navigate the minefield that the economy has ...

Dr Doyin Salami, the newly appointed Chief Economic Adviser to President Buhari Dear Sir, As you are no doubt aware, ...

But as fair as I tried to be, everything else looks woeful for this government and I wonder where the ...

“So, what’s your problem?”, I asked. “Are there no adults associated with ‘Project Nigeria’?”, was her response. I’m yet to ...

...the CBN’s desire to keep the naira’s exchange rate at levels that support the economy is reduced to a fiction. ...

...starved of oil receipts, as presently structured, the economy will hurt. However, the catch is in the phrase “as presently ...

Once the recipient of large investments and a big employer of labour, of late the domestic manufacturing sector has spent ...

...if it takes nearly a year-and-half between a central bank’s monetary policy decision and when the economy responds to this, ...

Theoretically, an expansionary budget should stimulate growth by way of creating jobs, increasing output, reducing poverty and even improving infrastructure ...

An ephemeral "5 per cent" growth rate with diminishing purchasing power parity, more people strapped in poverty, unemployment, mass underemployment, ...

This is the time for decisive leadership that would present a profound national vision and sincerely show a clear path ...

Businesses fail because of many other reasons, depending on their peculiar natures, but some of the above factors indicate business ...

The Buhari administration has explained this build-up of debt in terms of its need to fund much-needed investment in infrastructure.

Over the April number, inflation appeared to have gone up in May ― for the headline gauge from 0.97 per ...

We have frittered away a king’s ransom in foreign exchange defending the sense of a strong naira exchange rate being ...

The problem is how to get our governments to understand this and arrange their processes in a way that helps ...