The conspiracies that shape the African mind, By Uddin Ifeanyi
The match last week between Morocco and Senegal that brought the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025 to a close ...
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Creating a social contract — a challenge to the elite in Nigeria, By Doyin Salami & Uddin Ifeanyi
In the end, and at the heart of the seemingly endless debates over how and how rapidly we may modernise ...
Crude oil, Venezuela, and related Trumpery, By Uddin Ifeanyi
When, sometime last week, the U.S. President announced the “capture” of Nicolás Maduro Moros, until 3 January, Venezuela's resident dictator, ...
Democrats, preference for hierarchies, and oases of excellence, By Uddin Ifeanyi
The minority, may, however, construct “oases of excellence.” The conceptual driver here is both negative and positive. By guaranteeing that ...
Tax reforms, renegotiating the “social contract”, By Uddin Ifeanyi
The immediate implications of the federal government’s new tax reforms have been widely discussed since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed ...
Authority stealing and unexplained wealth orders, By Uddin Ifeanyi
The main takeout from the analyses of Alhaji Dangote’s allegations is that “authority stealing” – Fela's name for the malaise ...
What to make of the economy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
...the truth is that tepid global economic growth, a Chinese economy that is increasingly as dependable as a reveller with ...
What do the Q3 2025 GDP figures tell us?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Given that government’s borrowing is a drag on domestic savings, and much of the resulting spend drives rapid increases in ...
If our security infrastructure is to properly “pummel” bandits, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Far more lasting, though, is all that has to be done to remove the motive for citizens joining or tolerating ...
An agenda for reform (III), By Uddin Ifeanyi
Evidently, competence-based governance and credible enforcement are mutually reinforcing categories. The virtual loop that their interplay creates has competent institutions ...
Between decarbonisation and development, By Uddin Ifeanyi
“Who decarbonisation help?” is such a difficult question not to ask. Especially when as a citizen of what used to ...
Making sense of the electric vehicle bill, By Uddin Ifeanyi
If the Senate Committee on Industry serves the nation well, and if it is to be of any use, the ...
Corporate cultures, culturing corporates, By Uddin Ifeanyi
What then to make of the consensus that culture eats strategy for breakfast all the time? A corporate culture whose ...
Nigeria incorporated, too big to jail, By Uddin Ifeanyi
In my almost thirty years of work as a foot soldier in Nigeria Incorporated I learnt lessons galore. A few ...
A pardoning culture, or a culture of pardons, By Uddin Ifeanyi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu We can, while waiting for the jury, at least, agree that the optics of President Tinubu’s ...
What to make of the populist nationalist challenge to democracy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
The global response to Israel’s two-year war against fighters of The Islamic Resistance Movement (better known by its Arabic acronym, ...
An agenda for reform II, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Up until now, the Tinubu government has focused on reforms with a near-term impact: exchange rate and monetary reform; inflation ...
An agenda for reform, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Ironic? Yes. But Nigeria's long-term heritage from the boom days of its export of crude oil are the structural weaknesses ...
Inflation and trust in the naira, By Uddin Ifeanyi
By far the bigger problem, though, is that the CBN’s ability to function properly, by anchoring inflation expectations, for instance, ...
On Israel and Palestine: Why a two-state solution still remains the best, By Uddin Ifeanyi
The problem with the one-state vision is that it ignores the myriad centripetal forces that have been at play in ...
“Do you know who I am?”, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Unsurprisingly, most members of the Nigerian elite suffer a deep crisis of identity. Having expressed themselves all their affluent lives ...
The sixth floor and reminiscences of time past, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Why must the celebration of my turning 60 years be about Nigeria? Can it not be about me? Friends of ...
Baksheesh and efficient economies, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Markets may be impersonal. But where they are allowed to function with few lets, they efficiently (better, at least, than ...
How long before the greenback taps out?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
...the hurdles to non-dollar currencies gaining reserve status loom as large as they have ever been, albeit – thanks to ...
What does Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s primary victory mean?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Zohran Kwame Mamdani There is no gainsaying the fact there is something – a lot, even – wrong with politics ...
