Nigeria, Feb. 9 -- The events leading up to and succeeding the elections of 12 June, 1993, were remarkable in several respects in Nigeria's political (and if all their consequences are included, econo... Read More
Nigeria, Feb. 2 -- If you can, however briefly, ignore the debate over whether, in its policymaking, the federal government should see Nigerians as citizens rather than as taxpayers, then, the Tinubu ... Read More
Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- I have told this story before. But it bears re-telling in the current circumstances. More than 30 years ago, a friend was involved in a car accident. He was driving back home in th... Read More
Nigeria, Jan. 5 -- "Truth is, few Africans are democrats. We love hierarchy and authority ranking too much for it to be otherwise." I posted this on my social media handles a couple of days ago. The m... Read More
Nigeria, Dec. 22 -- All through last week, our talking heads and their many echo chambers were exercised by Alhaji Aliko Dangote's (Africa's richest person and chief promoter of the country's leading ... Read More
Nigeria, Dec. 15 -- Set against the Tinubu government's goal of building a US$1 trillion economy by 2030, the GDP numbers released recently by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) do not give cause... Read More
Nigeria, Dec. 8 -- The aggregate output numbers for the three months to end-September 2025, released last week by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), show that the Nigerian economy continues to g... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 24 -- Over the years, the discussions that I have been involved in about how to make Nigeria modern invariably collapse into two questions. The first one: "How do we tilt the balance on ... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 24 -- Over the years, the discussions that I have been involved in about how to make Nigeria modern invariably collapse into two questions. The first one: "How do we tilt the balance on ... Read More
Nigeria, Nov. 17 -- "Who decarbonisation help?" is such a difficult question not to ask. Especially when as a citizen of what used to be referred to as the "Third World", decarbonisation increasingly ... Read More