Tag: Uddin Ifeanyi

Several passages in the NBS’ report describe changes as percentages when they are more accurately percentage point changes. And we ...

All of this leads to the one question that accompanied me through every page of the report: Is Nigeria’s economy ...

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Far more consequential would be that on the back of its ability to raise funds ...

Which is the more significant milestone? Three years into the Tinubu administration? Or the prospect, next year, of another general ...

Catholic Bishops meet with Tinubu (PHOTO CREDIT: @aonanuga1956) It would have been far easier, then, for the president to have ...

Culture is a beautiful thing. Just about everyone has a sense of what it is. I can tell examples of ...

The point that ought not to be missed is that for an economy such as ours, the biggest crisis point ...

Birdwatchers Is my point that Nigeria does not look favourably on birdwatchers. No, it doesn’t. In the passive sense described ...

A few years back, poor sporting infrastructure was the bane of African teams at the World Cup. Today, with Europeans ...

President Donald Trump And the US? The Yorùbá believe that when a battling ram steps back, it is to reinforce. ...

Mr Bayo Onanuga Last week, Mr Onanuga hogged news headlines again. This time he assayed to entrap the canard that ...

Self aggrandisement – in politics and in business? Conspicuous consumption? The moral infirmity that is status competition? You can choose ...

International Monetary Fund In a qualified sense, the fund’s report presents a picture of an economy that is stronger financially, ...

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy, Taiwo Oyedele. Is there, thus, a case to argue that as ...

...taking a loan in the understanding that one may kick the repayment can down the road is not just irresponsible. ...

...the jury is in. Corruption renders an economy more fragile. It worsens insecurity simply from the ease with which it ...

...Nigeria needs reforms that radically alter the structure of its economy – private sector-led (market-driven); within a strong regulatory and ...

Mr Wale Edun Given that over the last decade-and-half, the country has also experienced a sharp fall in investment in ...

As with the arguments against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the US’ and Israel’s new war, the many ways in ...

International Monetary Fund "In Nigeria, growth momentum is sustained at 4.1 percent in 2026, supported by improved macroeconomic stability and ...

Clearly, this world order has long needed repair. Not because it is broken. But more because it is past its ...

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The central bank act cannot prioritise the bank’s operational independence, while the entire process of ...

However one defines politics or government, as an art or science, it is nearly always a question of which winners ...

Reflecting on my approximately thirty years of work in the organised private sector in Nigeria, one thing that is clear ...

This erosion of Iran’s fighting ability – today’s Iran quite clearly is not the existential threat to its neighbours that ...