Is Nigeria on the way to serfdom?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
#EndBadGovernance protesters in Ibadan, Oyo State For, in truth, from Bangladesh to Kenya, the relevant authorities have offered a stark ...
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The information adviser as metaphor for the government, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Mr Bayo Onanuga Having lent his voice to the efforts of the NADECO coalition to draw attention to the debilitating ...
Zero-for-150, band-aid-for-cancer?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Put differently, the “zero-for-150” policy initiative (zero-tariff on food imports for 150 days) is just another instance of government playing ...
How (not) to make reforms work, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Further reforms to governance will, thus, be required to leverage the strengthened financial and administrative ...
The metamorphosis of our current democratic attempt, By Uddin Ifeanyi
In its painful metamorphosis, however, a final stage remains for our democracy. Having savoured government-by-the-intimate (and we are struggling with ...
Ought the Federal Government to try bury its head in the sand?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
President Tinubu of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And last week the APC federal government, seemingly exhausted by its exertions, ...
Inflation, the Central Bank, and the Federal Government, By Uddin Ifeanyi
...by far the most important concern in the ongoing national conversation about inflation and the design of appropriate policy responses, ...
Our coast, highways, and global warming, By Uddin Ifeanyi
But even if we are to continue to play the ostrich on this matter, as the idea of the coastal ...
Why we should turn off the economy’s deep freezers, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu. ...a country is best served when services and goods providers operate in competitive markets. Rather ...
Central banking, inflation, and domestic growth, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) How do we then nudge Nigerians away from the conviction that rising prices are the ...
What’s with the naira’s appreciation, and is it sustainable?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Given how poorly the balance on our reserves is, intervention through BDCs is at present more show than substance. On ...
Politics will have economics for breakfast all the time, By Uddin Ifeanyi
At the core of our problems as a people, is the nature of our politics. As the current government demonstrates ...
CBN: How not to manage an economy in distress, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) In the decision to hike its benchmark rate as vertically as it did last week, ...
Rethinking our options for refloating the economy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Thankfully, economic literature is replete with examples of how diverse countries have addressed their variants of the multiplicity of problems ...
Should we continue putting lipstick on this pig?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
President Bola Tinubu Whatever the incumbent federal government’s motives, without telling the people how awful things were when it succeeded ...
The child, the snitch, and humanity’s needs, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Today, the governance challenge (including the design of optimal whistleblowing legislation) invites us to square this need for cohesion (still ...
Lessons from last year’s goofed-up currency swap project, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Are there any lessons for the current managers of the domestic economy from this? Three in fact. First is to ...
Why should government tax us more?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
The more interesting of the trade-offs that the Tinubu government will have to make in the new year is the ...
Why we must return to an orthodox CRR policy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
CBN Governor, Olayemi Cardoso Despite Nigerians’ love of the story around our economy's exceptional status, orthodox economics has a term ...
Business divestments and the imperative of economic reforms, By Uddin Ifeanyi
...from the most perfunctory assessment of the state of the economy today, you could have your pick of why these ...
The market and democracy: What are the alternatives?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
If Winston Churchill was right when he said that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the ...
Monetary policy — what is to be done?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) If we agree that transparency is increasingly of the essence, then the Central Bank must ...
The lesson from General Sani Abacha’s rule, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Amongst other things, my experience of General Abacha’s regime is why I am not enamoured of China. Any person, thing, ...
Of bans, foreign exchange earnings, and a strong naira, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Today, confronting evidence of the cackhandedness of our management of our foreign exchange resources until very recently, the question turns ...
Understanding the market, By Uddin Ifeanyi
This freedom to choose what to buy, produce, and sell is the market’s main link to the other freedoms, without ...
