Tag: Uddin Ifeanyi

...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, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari presenting the 2022 Budget. The Buhari government has since coming into office in 2015 spent more than ...

Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In a qualified sense, then, the CBN’s cheap money policy is ...

In parsing President Buhari’s Independence Day speech, therefore, the gap between reality and aspiration that has been much commented upon, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari Those who add (and then fret about) the fact that in the first five months of this ...

This explains the central contradiction of this new non-tribal politics: the fact that almost without fail the cachet that these ...

...the recent ruling by the federal high court, which favoured the state as the level of government that should collect ...

...is the assumption that “homo politicus”, as a voter, is as rational in his decision making as his economic counterpart ...

The economy’s GDP growth rate for the second quarter of this year reflects how uncomfortable the economy’s performance have become.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act 2007’s declaration of the naira’s abuse as verboten, however, goes beyond jurisprudential worries.

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

Where Nigeria the geographical expression failed, these not-so-new cultural expressions, longer-lived than Nigeria will succeed.

As a share of the economy's capacity, the debt is manageable at 12 per cent of gross domestic product, though ...

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 results of randomised controlled trials, must be non-negotiable parts of policy proposals going forward.

...the 2023 elections matters in a way in which no election in the country's history has mattered. From our current ...

A predictable and transparent policy environment is the first and main contribution that any serious government can make to the ...

You do not have to look to far to find examples of the Buhari government’s failure to fix the many ...

There have been attempts to stitch up these oozing sores, from mythologising “de-tribalisation” through the fiction of a monolithic “North”.

Except that even when the economy grew by 2.27 per cent in 2019, the consensus was that the economic auguries ...

Automation of processes was as much the augury of the redundancy of unskilled work as it became a precondition for ...

While the Nigerian economy may almost imperceptibly have lifted its index finger, it is still in intensive care, where it ...