North-west Nigeria has for the past four to five decades suffered from waves of crisis and violence. The trajectory of ...

A wave of protests has spread through Nigeria as citizens call for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a ...

For a brief moment in October, it seemed that youthful protesters calling to “abolish” a police force had succeeded. After ...

Nigeria’s global image is taking an international beating. From its elevation to the top rank of the world’s poverty capital, ...

“…economic security is national security” – President-Elect Joseph Biden                       “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste” – Paul ...

On June 18 this year, President Muhammadu Buhari reprimanded his military service chiefs over their failure to curb the worsening ...

On Saturday, November 28, about 43 farmers who had gone to their farms during the current harvest season were attacked ...

Undoubtedly in order to promote the video clip of an ethnic revanchist calling on Igbo to leave Yoruba land, this ...

Cyberspace is constantly flooded with information generated by individuals, corporate organisations, state institutions and businesses on a daily basis. This ...

On October 6, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) lifted the sanctions on Mali, to the relief of ...

“Don’t go out.” “Why are you always going out?” “Please be safe”. These are all phrases that young Nigerians have ...

What we know about the 21st century revolt is that the youth are its key actors, it starts on social ...

The battle-cry to end the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)’ reign of terror came to a near-halt last weekend when the ...

It has been a tumultuous week of protests. It will be helpful to take a backward glance as we navigate ...

The increase in the pump price of fuel, in 2020, a fall-out of the deregulation of the downstream sector, did ...

On the matter of the health of the Nigerian economy and the country’s medium-term outlook, I’ve taken part in long, ...

With the latest round of protest to #EndSARS, Nigerians need to know the origin of the rogue unit that has ...

As I made to angrily start the car, he howled, “Move an inch from there! If I no waste you ...

The hashtag #EndSARS has been trending on social media for some time now, triggered by the alleged killing of a ...

As life gradually returns to normal after a tumultuous week of looting, arson, wanton destruction and death that followed the ...

“I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the ...

Crimes and criminality have shifted from the physical environment to cyberspace, where criminals operate now without any physical restriction, and ...

It is no longer news that in Nigeria today, several internet assisted crimes known as cybercrimes are committed daily in ...

’ve mentioned before – in fact, just last week – an anecdote about one of my bosses asking us to ...

In the wake of an insurgency that devastated Nigeria’s petroleum industry and sent the economy into a tailspin, the Nigerian government granted unconditional ...

The decision of the federal government to spend $1 billion from the Excess Crude Account on security has divided Nigerians ...

Since last month the State government and security agencies have been working to contain an upsurge in violence and needless ...

The renewed interest in the crisis that continues to rock Southern Kaduna would be helpful if it produces a genuine ...

A friend of mine sent me the link to be part of the webinar organised by the Whiteink Institute for ...

The controversy over the withdrawal of the invitation of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, the executive governor of Kaduna state, as one ...

I listened to Senator Emmanuel Yisa Oker-Jev’s interview on the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) 7am news of 13 ...

“I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the ...

We – and I dare say most Nigerians – would wish for Nigeria to work for most Nigerians primarily and ...

The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) should be scrapped without any delay. This is because the ONSA has ...

PMB Security Legacy and Need for Caution By  Afakriya A. Gadzama The State Security Service recently had cause to alert on ...

Security votes should be spent with discretion Above all other attributes, security of the citizens is what defines a state. ...

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? The typical response of Nigerian governments over the years to separatist agitations is to brand ...

In April 2, as Nigeria’s megacity Lagos and its capital Abuja locked down to control the spread of the coronavirus, ...

he kidnapping of 110 schoolgirls from Dapchi last month is the latest event to cast doubt on the Nigerian government’s ...

Far more than at any time since the end of Nigeria’s protracted civil war in 1970, the country now faces ...

The resurgence of killings in Kauru, Zango-Kataf, Kaura, Kajuru and Jema’a local governments in Kaduna State is not altogether surprising. ...

This week, I was invited to join a large delegation of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on a fact-finding mission ...

On Tuesday, Governor Nasir El-Rufai addressed a high-powered meeting on the violent crisis in parts of southern Kaduna. He expressed ...

I spent most of last Monday pondering about the declaration by Army Chief, Tukur Buratai, that the nation’s security situation ...

In the midst of …clear and present dangers nationwide, Nigerians whilst ignoring their common perils, continued to produce and reproduce ...

Nigeria has surfed through numerous hurdles as far as security is concerned. Ranging from the Niger Delta Insurrection and militancy, ...

I was in Senegal last week for a conference and for the first time in a long while, it felt ...

This week, I was in Niamey, Niger Republic for a scholarly conference on the state of knowledge on security and ...

Last week, I participated in a conference on the theme of combatting insecurity and violent extremism in the Sahel. It ...

This is not the best of times to be identified as a Nigerian, especially if you are a Nigerian in ...

Code named “Operation Fox Hunt 2”, the Dubai Police swooped in on them. In the raid, 47 phones, 15 USB ...

Deceit. This six letter word aptly describes the biggest hindrance to the battle against insecurity in Nigeria. Until the Buhari ...

The authorities may do well by enforcing the cybercrime act In what is fast becoming a routine affair, the American ...

President Buhari must do more to secure the country Despite the repeated claims by the military that Boko Haram has ...

Illegal miners pose serious threat to our economy and national security That the latest audit report of the Nigeria Extractive ...

The authorities could do more to make our waters safe A recent statement by the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime ...

Between 2010 and 2015, Nigeria lost 6,500 citizens and 62,000 others were displaced from their homelands in 850 recorded violent ...

Six years ago, a cashless policy became fully operational in Nigeria. The aim was to encourage electronic transactions with a view to ...

Shila boys are youths of 15 to 25 years who engage in street larceny and have been terrorising the residents ...

“Fear a tumult which will affect those who caused it as well as the innocent ones…” – Quran Chapter Anfal 8:25 ...

When Major-General Bashir Magashi (rtd.) was announced as a ministerial nominee, I reached out to the former Commissioner for Information ...

The signal we receive daily in counterterrorism campaigns, especially from Borno State is disturbing and alarming. The alleged conspiracy and ...

It was supposed to be a tactful foresight, the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari in appointing people from Borno State ...

Introduction Since the return to democracy in 1999, Nigeria has been grappling with diverse security challenges, chief among them are ...

Mr. President should realize that the Fulani herdsmen are worse than the Boko Haram and the Niger Delta militants. This ...

Evidence shows growing concern over increasing sexual violence against girls nationwide in the COVID-19 lockdown. Cases of rape reported to ...

It is easy to blame the Shiites because we do not subscribe to their ideology or the struggle for the ...

COVID-19 records deaths approaching 480,000, infections 9,200,000, with around 21,000 recognised cases in Nigeria. Stay safe!! The astronomical increase in Covid-19 ...

Whenever I cross the River Kaduna bridge to visit Teslim, I am reminded of the tranquility of my childhood growing ...

The security situation in the country today is frightening. Insurgents, militants, criminals and bandits have caught up the reality of ...

Banditry is on the increase in northern Nigeria. This is a region with many security problems, chief among them Boko Haram’s ...

Granted that the intervention by security forces in a crisis may occasionally be compelling to bring about stability and calmness, ...

Security experts have identified good governance as a panacea to the recurring problems of insecurity in the country. The experts, ...

Nigeria’s forests cover about 96,043 square km– that’s about 10% of the country’s landmass. But the presence of authorities in these sanctuaries ...

Northern Nigeria has become a thieving and killing field for cattle rustlers who maraud the region’s ungoverned forests, stealing cattle ...

Kidnapping is an ancient crime dating back to 17th century Britain when infant children of rich families would be “napped” (caught ...

The Nigeria Police and Army cannot provide jobs. These should be the main focus of governors. So all the support ...

Muhammadu Buhari has just won his second term as President of Nigeria in what was a fiercely fought campaign chiefly ...

The core reason for the substantive demands for restructuring Nigeria is linked, paradoxically, to widespread concerns about how far the ...

I have never experienced a near-national annihilation, as we did after the #EndSARS protest turned bloody a fortnight ago. I ...

On June 30, 2017, my column was entitled, “No Need to Fight: Restructuring is the basis of Happiness.” In it ...

At first glance, at the heart of the #EndSARS movement would seem to lie the process of reconfiguring the relationship ...

Memorandum by Friends of Democracy to the National Assembly Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution 1.0 Introduction Since ...

When I left the comfort and security of an academic environment to become a public servant in a sector that ...

In 2018, the European Union (EU) began the implementation of the General Data Protection Rule (GDPR), which regulates the processing ...

Nigeria is home to a thriving contradiction. Here is a country that celebrates its aspirations to greatness — economic success, ...

Conceived by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2006, the blueprint of Vision 2020 was launched in September 2009 by late ...

The whirlwind of change that blew across the length and breadth of Nigeria and ushered in a federal government that ...

The Nigeria Bar Association got a new executive over a month now. Given the pervasiveness of corruption in Nigeria and ...

As Nigeria marks its 60th anniversary, I just can’t help but ponder on the inherent complexities and contradictions in its ...

“I love my country I no go lie. Na inside am I go live and die.” – Wole Soyinka Yes, yesterday, ...

My Beloved Cross Riverians, It is with much sadness that I call out to you today. I am devastated by ...

For the umpteenth time, another version of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2020 has just been transmitted to the National ...

The importance and urgency of this subject to the Nigerian Left, at this time, demand that I begin the discussion ...

My reflections on serial tanker explosions or tanker related suicidal incidents (note: not accidents!) on our roads in the past ...

Going by the Nigeria’s federal structural arrangement, it is not the responsibility of the federal government to provide water in ...

Nigeria faces the triple challenge of providing reliable power supply, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and keeping energy affordable to consumers. ...

The one lasting effect of the novel coronavirus that is not as reported as its more proximate effects on people’s ...

I was privileged to attend two virtual lectures this week on the invitation of the distinguished professor of Science and ...

There is need to ensure inclusive and quality education for all, writes Folawe OmikunleIt has never been more critical to ...

Nigeria has not turned the corner in the battle against the COVID-19 global pandemic. But it can be said, unarguably ...

In the short-term, we are already aware of the immediate changes that COVID-19 has brought to our lives. Air travel ...

The whole world is looking for money. In some parts of the world, they are doing so for all the ...

I listened to Senator Emmanuel Yisa Oker-Jev’s interview on the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) 7am news of 13 ...

“I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the ...

t is difficult for Nigerians not to recoil at the government’s lackluster response to signing and ratifying the African Continental ...

PUTTING FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY INTO PERSPECTIVE International efforts are intensifying to end hunger and address the emerging challenge of ...

This week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released its annual Goalkeepers report, which tracks progress on the Sustainable Development Goals ...

Nigeria’s recent announcement confirming that it is closing its borders to prevent movement of all goods has been met with harsh criticism from ...

With 1.39 million coronavirus cases  and 79,382 deaths globally, the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the outbreak, the outlook ...

We – and I dare say most Nigerians – would wish for Nigeria to work for most Nigerians primarily and ...

The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) should be scrapped without any delay. This is because the ONSA has ...

PMB Security Legacy and Need for Caution By  Afakriya A. Gadzama The State Security Service recently had cause to alert on ...

Security votes should be spent with discretion Above all other attributes, security of the citizens is what defines a state. ...

Economist and businessman, Mr Tope Fasua has recommended the strengthening of the Office of the Auditor General for the Federation (OAuGF) be ...

Leadership means much more than most people assume. In the words of Jim Rohn, “the challenge of leadership is to ...

It is not a walk in the park to give birth to a business in this clime, because of many ...

ast week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released Nigeria’s 2018 Article IV consultation report highlighting the country’s exit from the ...

In a 2017 discussion with the president of Echidna Giving, I was asked a simple but destabilizing question: “Tell me ...

As part of new visa restrictions by the Trump administration, the US will no longer issue immigrant visas to Nigerian applicants. While ...

key priority for Africa over the next decade should be to address a deteriorating food security situation that is compounded ...

The baby was presented to us in the arms of a wide-eyed young mother, and wrapped in brightly coloured chitenje ...

Higher education is usually seen as a way for individuals and families to improve their economic status. Research shows, though, that graduates ...

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a range of development challenges, including high population growth, poverty, food insecurity, and poor health. There is a clear need for qualified and ...

“That night before the meeting, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, whom I had visited two years before, gave us a banquet ...

Channels Television’s “Sunrise Daily” programme had a very sound guest on it the other day. Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) spoke factually ...

As it has been argued several times, governance is a twenty-hour job that demands the unalloyed attention and time of ...

There is a wide disparity between what is said behind closed doors and in the public arena, regarding the ignominious ...

“…I don’t mind Nigeria losing a whole school year than exposing our children to danger.” Those were the words of ...

The Nigerian government’s decision to reopen schools for students in exit classes and allow the country participate in this year’s ...

On July 23, Africa, its diaspora and other pro-black races in the global community, commemorated the 120-year anniversary of the ...

As a country, Nigeria has become a metaphor for missed opportunities, despite its abundance of talent and resources. Even with ...

The most sensitive and contentious issues about Nigeria’s federalism seem to be the “no-go” areas. It is apparent that part ...

The mention of sex education often evokes a certain sensitivity among parents, to suggest that it is a taboo for ...

Today marks the 59th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence from British colonial rule. On Saturday, October 1, 1960, Nigerians gathered at ...

In my training as a lawyer I was taught that it was a criminal offence for anyone to engage in ...

Francis Sardauna reports that the modernisation of the Al-majiri system of education by the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari ...

Now is the best time for people in power to hold a national dialogue to drive the focus of Nigeria’s ...

The relationship between Nigeria and China with regard to loans obtained from the latter to fund Nigeria’s infrastructural projects suddenly ...

The bitter and sweet policies of gradually abolishing fuel subsidy regime and guided floating of the naira might have taken ...

World Hepatitis Day – 28 July – is an opportunity to raise awareness of hepatitis and encourage commitments of governments, policy makers ...

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot ...

Coming up, we have heard from several local political discourses that the only way Nigeria’s problems can be solved is ...

“The more leeches there are affixed to a host, the less resources there are to siphon from said hosts, per ...

What is so novel or complicated about the take or Pay provision in the Power Purchase Agreement between the Federal ...

We all at least know one person who seems not to have the ability to follow through with a single ...

As we enjoy the Niger Delta special corruption opera playing on the nation’s prime time shows, we should reflect deeper ...

Clarity = productivity Let’s say, you’ve entered the dating world and decided to find a boyfriend/girlfriend. Unlike Tolu, our example ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put global emergency preparedness under sharp scrutiny. It’s also placed national health systems’ capacity to predict ...

The flood of corruption stories in Nigeria in the last week has worried many patriotic Nigerians. It was like a ...

The year 2020 brought with it high hopes typical of every new year. But right on its heels, a virulent ...

Government should adopt a better strategy for the anti-graft war If there is any lesson from the current suspension and ...

The Nigerian healthcare system has suffered serious neglect over the years. In spite of the resources channelled to the sector, ...

Following the signing of Executive Order 6 (EO6) by President Muhammadu Buhari, there has been renewed interest in both chambers ...

The Legitimate and Appropriate Use of Powers of the Presidential Executive Order There are many legitimate uses of EOs pursuant ...

Nigerians have always had cause to condemn the activities of their elected representatives, particularly those at the National Assembly (NASS). ...

It is a show of shame, isn’t it, what is going on at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)? Established ...

Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, I come to you in peace. Nevertheless, I do not have a nicer way of putting ...

There is currently an upsurge of passionate demands for “restructuring”, “true federalism” and “actualization of the sovereign state of Biafra”. ...

It should be noteworthy to development enthusiasts that the federal government is reportedly paying some attention to planning for economic ...

Makeba Chief Executive officer Yamandou Alexander has announced its private launch on Wefunder where it will receive funds to start-up from investors. ...

When former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Chukwuma Soludo, directed banks to shore up their capital base to N25 ...

One factor working in favour of leading organizations is their deployment of customer feedback to get even better. Feedback is ...

At a recent webinar, the audience was asked to answer this question: “What are the lessons to be learnt for ...

The world will not be rid of Covid-19 until we have a safe and effective vaccine available to everyone. We ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic exposing several strains in Nigeria’s healthcare system, especially in the area of digital engagement, it is ...

Health experts have called on stakeholders in the health sector and governments to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to ...

In my last reflection on the global personality, Professor Toyin Falola, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the ...

Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. (Luke 17:33) “Real ...

The question I will want to address in this intervention is simple but fundamental to the way we see Africa ...

Anthony ‘Lee’ Iacocca, the American businessman, titled his 2007 bestseller Where Have All the Leaders Gone? In the book, Iacocca was ...

From the moment I commenced work as a public servant in the late 1980s, it already dawned on me the ...

Alas, someone is listening. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has now made its manifesto available, unfolding the party’s lineup of ...

According to Isaiah Berlin, the British philosopher, “The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand ...

My last article, titled, “#IssuesForBuhari: From Clueless to an Issueless Government” generated considerable feedback. The backlash was expected, and it ...

As a retired public servant, I have the good fortune of looking back to a few significant moments in my ...

Nigeria’s education perspective and global employment market fit In Nigeria, emphasis in the recent past seems to be placed on ...

The pervasiveness of the unemployment scourge has become a matter of global concern. It seems age-long and quite commonplace. For ...

Most people believe Nigeria is in recession because the whole world seems to be plunging in to recession due to ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) advertises its most recent intervention in the domestic foreign exchange space as “necessary to ...

The most powerful story told by the output numbers for the July-September quarter (2020) is the one by “crop production”. ...

Agriculture has undergone rapid transformation, from the era of the industrial revolution, when farmers depended on manual labour to the ...

Naturally, most Nigerians are extremely distressed by goings on at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) of late. I am ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown measures have had a huge negative impact on producers and consumers. Food production has ...

COVID-19 has had a dire effect on global economies. Rising infection rates have led to social distancing directives, persistent lockdowns, the closing of ...

There are growing signs that the aid relationship between the Global South and the Global North is changing fast. Many ...

Competition laws protect consumers and create confidence in an economy. It’s a signal to investors and entrepreneurs that a market is fair ...

Trade routes have been significantly disrupted this year in efforts to contain COVID-19. The effects of this are already showing: ...

A free trade agreement, in its most basic sense, is an attempt by existing industries to find new markets. Their ...

The global economy faces profound uncertainties, particularly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, faith in the efficacy of international ...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has again achieved another milestone with the launch of the National Centre for ...

2020 bushwhacked just about everyone. And across the world, responses to the challenges presented by the year have been as ...

When Klaus Schwab established the European Management Forum (EMF) in January 1971, his dream was only about Europe. The professor ...

The 23rd day of October, 2019 is going to remain a memorable day in the history of the Federal Ministry ...

Competition laws protect consumers and create confidence in an economy. It’s a signal to investors and entrepreneurs that a market is fair ...

The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to a recent press release titled “Matters of ...

The open disagreement between the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) about both the ...

There is a popular refrain heard when people talk about economic difficulties in this country: “No matter what happens, beer ...

It is usually painful to see Rotimi Amaechi, the Transport minister being drilled over Nigeria’s Chinese loans by the House ...

For a very long time, the land of Zamfara has witnessed gradual, but progressively negative development, no thanks to the ...

With a population and gross domestic product projected at 399 million people and $3.3 trillion by 2050, the gulf between the ...

Nigeria needs to deepen economic reforms and boost government revenues in order to have a sustained recovery after a coronavirus-induced ...

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s economy grew in 2018 at its fastest pace since a recession two years earlier, data showed, ...

Technology is a product of human labour. The working class and society can therefore shape its direction. According to the International ...

When it comes to money, coronavirus has split the nation. Financial stress dominates for many of the 9.5 million employees on ...

Most economists see structural transformation as one of the main routes to Africa’s sustainable development. What it means is changing ...

There is no shortage of technological innovations designed to boost animal agriculture in Africa. These range from GPS tracking systems which identify ...

The COVID-19 pandemic will have economic consequences for many countries. In Nigeria, the country’s lockdowns froze economic activities, causing job ...

Organised consumer culture is not alien to Nigeria. At a time in Nigeria’s past, we had retail giants like A.G ...

The whole world has been forced to change everything to fight the pandemic ravaging the counties of the world. Most ...

Corruption is constant in every society and it occurs in all civilised societies. It has many different shapes as well ...

It is no surprise that the U.S. leads other countries in its count of confirmed infections from the new coronavirus ...

The expectation of closing the 16.8% shortfall in the Nigeria financial inclusion target is threatened, as the recent Enhancing Financial ...

THE International Monetary Fund’s recent warning to the Federal Government to avoid undue aggression in tax collection amid what is ...

It would be recalled that the public sector reform, privatisation and commercialisation programme in Nigeria was formally introduced following the ...

Independence is a cardinal pillar for organisations that are set up to deliver a public good. Their success depends on ...

As Nigeria celebrated its 59th  independence , a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo ...

Some 230 years ago, Thomas Jefferson argued that “the two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let ...

In my 2005 National Democracy Day Lecture, I strongly argued that “for sustainable democracy, fundamental changes are required in the ...

Being the text of the prepared speech by Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, former Governor of the Central Bank of ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the current pandemic that has its knee on the world’s neck, may not have scythed through ...

Protocol It is my pleasure to address you at this second edition ofthe “National Seminar on Cash Handling, Automation andManagement” ...

As Africa struggles to live up to the expectation as the next big investment frontier, it is appropriate to focus ...

Government must do more to revive the ailing economy For many Nigerians, it may be increasingly difficult to live the ...

Where will we be in six months, a year, ten years from now? I lie awake at night wondering what ...

ABSTRACT There are limitations in the explanatory power of prevailing theories on the political economy of Africa’s  growth without  industrialization  ...

A consistent feature of global analyses of Africa’s economic prospects is their fickleness. In the years since the global financial ...

The unfolding US-China power rivalry bears a striking resemblance to the tensions between the US and the Soviet bloc during the Cold ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of plastic medical and protective equipment, such as single-use gloves, masks and aprons. Much ...

The COVID-19 pandemic will have economic consequences for many countries. In Nigeria, the country’s lockdowns froze economic activities, causing job losses and supply chain ...

COVID-19 is increasingly wreaking havoc on the health of Nigerians, but its economic impact may well be more devastating. Before the pandemic, ...

Almost every sector has recognized the vital role of big data in its development. It is referred to as ‘the ...

Even before the advent of COVID-19, the relationship between China and African countries had generated significant controversy. It had been ...

The defects in  the foundation of the Nigerian state can hardly be disputed. There would be a need for this ...

An invigorated informal sector could rebound to create enormous impact and demand in the “formal” sector. What is the secret ...

The Nigerian Insurance Sector can benefit immensely from the Takaful market, if it is integrated into mainstream activities in the ...

The Issuance of Retail Sukuks at both Sovereign and Sub-national will go a long way in spurring socio-economic development in ...

Short to Long term Islamic Finance Instruments can play a critical role in supporting the proposed economic sustainability plan of ...

With the roll out of the Economic Sustainability Plan of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Non-Interest Finance Market has ...

Being the text of a presentation by Olusegun Adeniyi, Chairman of the Thisday Editorial Board, at the ‘Platform Nigeria’; organised ...

The Paper presented by Godwin I. Emefiele, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria at the Special Convocation of the University of ...

Nigeria shows that economic growth combined with rising inequality won’t lift people out of poverty. The country’s next government should ...

With oil prices low, the region’s major oil-exporting economies have a chance to unlink their economies from natural resources. As ...

Chronic poverty may be on the decline, but too many families still face cyclical poverty. One of the biggest victories ...

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a ...

A big conceit of the Buhari administration is its persuasion that integrity trumps all. Across every encounter with fans of ...

In the recent update to its World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) describes the problem currently confronting most economies ...

Things will not be the same even when the corona virus COVID-19 pandemic has been substantially tamed. Social relations, ways ...

INTRODUCTION The present structure of Nigeria’s federal system of government is dysfunctional, hardly sustainable and will continue to constrain the ...

Inconvenient Truths Nation-building is hard, but it need not be as difficult as we make it in Nigeria. Nation-building is ...

“We cannot afford to be poor” is a position Marzuq Abubakar and I reached around December 2017. The reason for adopting this ...

It has become a truth, universally acknowledged, that Nigeria currently faces an unprecedented revenue crisis. A report on the Medium-Term ...

THIS generation has not had it easy at all – we are the generation that is easily credited with a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic will have economic consequences for many countries. In Nigeria, the country’s lockdowns froze economic activities, causing job losses and supply chain ...

Things will not be the same even when the corona virus COVID-19 pandemic has been substantially tamed. Social relations, ways ...

Nobel Laureate professor Wole Soyinka recently called for an emergency national conference on the Nigerian economy. This suggests that the economy is not only ...

Lengthy power cuts are pretty much a daily experience in Nigeria. The country’s epileptic power supply has been identified by ...

Nigeria spends an average of US $22 billion (₦7.92trn) each year on food imports. Its major food imports include wheat, sugar ...

Ever since Nigeria started harvesting its petroleum endowment, its economy’s umbilical cord has avoidably been firmly tied to the volatility ...

Two of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, HSBC and UBS, have recently closed their local representative ...

Energy remains one of the main constraints for economic growth in Nigeria. The lack of reliable access and irregular power ...

One of the main reasons newly-elected Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari had been widely expected to lose his bid for a ...

The World Food Programme has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could cause one of the worst food crises since World War II. ...

The rise of ethnic and religious nationalism in Nigeria in the last decade has led to such high levels of ...

I must confess that my worst fears about the new coronavirus pandemic have not been borne out. We, clearly, came ...

The Global Health Hazards and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 In December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases from an unknown ...

Editor’s Note: Nigeria, which has long struggled with governance issues and poverty, is in need of a profound economic transformation. ...

About 90 million people – roughly half Nigeria’s population – live in extreme poverty, according to estimates from the World Data ...

Nigeria’s economic potential is constrained by many structural issues, including inadequate infrastructure, tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, obstacles to ...

Business actvities have been disrupted  globally as Covid-19  pandemic intensify. World-Wide conferences, legal gatherings, sporting events, political rallies, economic transactions, ...

There is no denying the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the world and hoping that the world ...

The decision, last week, by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s policy committee to trim its benchmark interest rate by ...

The Federal Government has prepared and published an addendum to the revision of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework 2020-2022. The ...

The road from a pig farm in Iowa to the offices of economic development in Abuja is a long one. ...

Two weeks ago, I was concerned (on these pages) with how much of a vindication of the incumbent administration’s macroeconomic ...

The global count of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has since passed the six million mark, close to half a million ...

Bankers in Africa and China have agreed that digitisation of the banking sector will give it resilience against the current ...

The world’s economy is facing a serious challenge as a result of coronavirus. Millions are losing their jobs as the ...