Ifeanyi Uddin

Driving into 2022

Driving into 2022

Back-out the rose-tinted spectacles with which boosters of the Buhari government contemplate its achievements, and from my vantage last week,… Read More

4 years ago

Visions of things to come

“So, what’s your problem?”, I asked. “Are there no adults associated with ‘Project Nigeria’?”, was her response. I’m yet to… Read More

4 years ago

Red-listing policy behaviour

Seeing as both responses (our elite in answer to its aides, and the U.K. government in response to would-be travellers… Read More

4 years ago

How not to make public policy

Of the more challenging aspects of policy formulation/implementation, that of holding unintended consequences at the barest minimum is the more… Read More

4 years ago

Whither the naira’s exchange rate, there the crystal ball

As the CBN continues to rewrite monetary economics, the old hymnal no longer matters… we will have to wait until… Read More

4 years ago

Q3 numbers, falling oil production make the case for faster reforms

…starved of oil receipts, as presently structured, the economy will hurt. However, the catch is in the phrase “as presently… Read More

4 years ago

Does manufacturing matter for the Nigerian economy?

Once the recipient of large investments and a big employer of labour, of late the domestic manufacturing sector has spent… Read More

4 years ago

Why there are no decent political platforms ahead of 2023

Reflecting on the dysfunctional state of the country, you would be excused for thinking that the absence of ideological leanings… Read More

4 years ago

Inflation is not about to go away all by itself

…if it takes nearly a year-and-half between a central bank’s monetary policy decision and when the economy responds to this,… Read More

4 years ago

The Nigerian elite is an egregious rounding error

Reflecting on the depth of and widening rot that the Nigerian state is fast morphing into, it is difficult to… Read More

4 years ago

Why I am not piqued by Budget 2022

The Buhari government has since coming into office in 2015 spent more than it has budgeted for every year. The… Read More

4 years ago

Rising debt, low interest rates, and a troubled naira

In a qualified sense, then, the CBN’s cheap money policy is a far bigger threat to the fabric of our… Read More

4 years ago