That the new leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has continued with the asymmetric cash reserve requirement (CRR)… Read More
…from the most perfunctory assessment of the state of the economy today, you could have your pick of why these… Read More
If Winston Churchill was right when he said that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the… Read More
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Amongst other things, my experience of General Abacha’s regime is why I am not enamoured of China. Any person, thing,… Read More
The one thing that rumours of a planned restriction by the Tinubu government on the Nigerian public’s access to and… Read More
Today, confronting evidence of the cackhandedness of our management of our foreign exchange resources until very recently, the question turns… Read More
…the supply and demand of the naira ought to be the primary concern of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Yet,… Read More
As governor, and later as kingmaker in Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s policies were more mercantile (for want of a… Read More
Why, given the immense problems that the country faces, and the urgency of finding solutions to them, is the national… Read More
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