Tag: Uddin Ifeanyi

...what makes the attempt to blame Nigeria’s woes on neoliberal economics well-nigh impossible to come to terms with, is more ...

The one constant in the domestic export equation over the last century ― a poorly run local economy ― ought ...

The immediate challenge for the next government is to stabilise the economy. This might require selling some of what remains ...

Whatever the preferred management style in the next four years, the overarching national goal is to get the economy to ...

New Naira notes Why then do we continue to ignore policy errors, while blaming our people’s love for holding cash? ...

Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Key questions are, “Why do Nigerians prefer cash?” “At what income ...

Nigerian essentialism is a seductive looking plant with make-believe roots. For once you back out ethnic and religious considerations, the ...

It is scant surprise that the fowls are coming home to roost as the Buhari administration winds down. Domestic prices ...

Any which way, therefore, the world’s poor lose in most conversations about global warming ― at least long before the ...

It is easy, therefore, to assume that our policymakers do not know what they are about. If you add to ...

What to make of the party’s desire “for a stronger, more stable naira founded upon a vibrant and productive real ...

Do we face a serious food insecurity problem? Both the International Monetary Fund and the World Food Programme think so. ...

We cannot, thankfully, put up videos to mask the fact that our economy is very ill. We can only hope ...

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ...the venality that we put forward as evidence of Nigerians’ difference is nothing more than ...

Peter Obi, Tinubu and Atiku Although most commentators imagine we would end up across the table from the IMF agreeing ...

It is a rare instance that one substitutes ruthlessness for hospitality to anyone’s advantage. Nonetheless, Shettima’s main failing might simply ...

Back home, confronted by the same facts, our governments would have banned everything that moves. Cap prices. Tax windfall profits. ...

His aim was not to turn the Soviet Union into a new America. But as it is clear, today, from ...

What do the GDP data for the second quarter of this year tell of? Year-on-year, the economy grew by 3.54% ...

Is there space, then, for independent, informed and credible sources of commentary on national affairs? The result of research by ...

In all these years, the question of what rights the Taiwanese people have, has remained on the geopolitical front burner. ...

... conspiracy theorising is totally African. The hex, the banshee who wailed last night (and the child who died this ...

Sections of the market have long argued for numbers on the net external reserves to be published along with the ...

...At 49 per cent of the prorata target of N3.32 trillion for the period, the N1.63 trillion that the Federal ...

Alas, increasingly, domestic policy making has floated like the fabled lamp into the hands of would-be Aladdins. And these latter ...