Ifeanyi Uddin

Why we must return to an orthodox CRR policy

Why we must return to an orthodox CRR policy

That the new leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has continued with the asymmetric cash reserve requirement (CRR)… Read More

2 years ago

Business divestments and the imperative of economic reforms

…from the most perfunctory assessment of the state of the economy today, you could have your pick of why these… Read More

2 years ago

The market and democracy: What are the alternatives?

If Winston Churchill was right when he said that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the… Read More

2 years ago

What I fear about generative AI

Luckily, hallucinating generative AI is fixable by human editors. What is not likely to be fixable is when these new… Read More

2 years ago

Monetary policy — what is to be done?

If we agree that transparency is increasingly of the essence, then the Central Bank must also stop leaning against the… Read More

2 years ago

The lesson from General Sani Abacha’s rule

Amongst other things, my experience of General Abacha’s regime is why I am not enamoured of China. Any person, thing,… Read More

2 years ago

Why the ban as policy tool has come to stay

The one thing that rumours of a planned restriction by the Tinubu government on the Nigerian public’s access to and… Read More

2 years ago

Of Bans, Foreign Exchange Earnings, and a Strong Naira

Today, confronting evidence of the cackhandedness of our management of our foreign exchange resources until very recently, the question turns… Read More

2 years ago

Beyond greenbacks: the naira as a store of value

…the supply and demand of the naira ought to be the primary concern of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Yet,… Read More

2 years ago

Tinubu Economic Reforms: Beyond convictions, the politics of the free market

As governor, and later as kingmaker in Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s policies were more mercantile (for want of a… Read More

2 years ago

Making sense of our chattering class

Why, given the immense problems that the country faces, and the urgency of finding solutions to them, is the national… Read More

2 years ago

How not to go back to yesterday’s halcyon days

If nothing else, the history of the Nigerian economy is spoiled with policy flip-flops: a whiff of root-and-branch reform initially… Read More

2 years ago