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This article was first published last November. As Nigerians prepare for a national dialogue the hopes and wishes of Nigerians is that the conferees come up...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has yielded to the desire of many for a national dialogue. Many who in the past fanned the embers of tribalism, nepotism...
In the last three months local governments, states and federal government officials have been at each others’ neck over short falls in revenue allocation from the...
Fiscal and monetary policies are the instruments government use to manage the economy. The main focus of economic policy is the over all well being of...
Last week I wrote on this column that Nigerians penchant for foreign goods has continued to put pressure on the nation’s external reserves and the exchange...
Nigerians penchant for foreign goods has continued to put pressure on the nation’s external reserves and the exchange rate. In the last four months April to...
Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, while inspecting a cold rolling mill facility in Ilorin last week was reported to have said that the current regime...
Nigerians taste for foreign goods has been the bane of the economy. Many and prefer goods and services made abroad to locally produced goods even when...
In recent times, some incoherent and discordant tunes have been coming out from government quarters for Nigerians to dance to. One of such many tunes is...
When the current economic management team of the Jonathan Administration took office to manage the Nigerian economy, they vowed to check presidential arbitrariness and impunity with...
What makes economics an interesting science of behaviour is its attempt to predict the behaviour of economic agents. In the attempt to predict how certain economic...
Working in Nigeria is quite interesting and as well, very challenging. Public sector workers have to use their meager salaries to fend for themselves, their immediate...
In 1986, Nigeria was cash-strapped and could not pay for import; It embarked on import licensing. Foreign exchange rationing was the order of the day. It...
By Omoh Gabriel When the founding fathers of Western civilization adopted the capitalist philosophy, they realised that a free market economy is not efficient in resources...
Nigeria leaders and policy makers have often looked outside for solution to the nation’s ever rising poverty. They have not engaged themselves in out of the...