In parsing President Buhari’s Independence Day speech, therefore, the gap between reality and aspiration that has been much commented upon,… Read More
…No, the budgeting process is not flawed. For, at bottom, each budget (at whatever level of government this process takes… Read More
Ahead of the general elections scheduled for the first quarter of 2023, the jostling for advantage amongst members of our political… Read More
The fact that there are as many descriptions of the problem with Nigeria as there are commentators on the matter… Read More
…is the assumption that “homo politicus”, as a voter, is as rational in his decision making as his economic counterpart… Read More
…whichever your preferred cause, “generally slower pace of economic activities at the start of the year”, or “seasonality”, the significance… Read More
With the Delta variant of covid-19 driving an increase in infection caseloads across major cities, and worries rising over the… Read More
It would seem that despite lofty declarations to the contrary in its enabling statute, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)… Read More
Despite appearances to the contrary, going digital has not meant a change in “culture”. In person meetings used to be… Read More
Arguably, the biggest of the questions raised by the new CBN policy is: Why do we insist on subsidising the… Read More
How much of the concerns around this new “debt trap” is a dialogue about poor revenues? All of it, it… Read More
It would seem that but for Nigeria, or rather Lord Lugard, who forced these dissimilar and unequal cultural experiences into… Read More