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Rafiq Raji
Defiance and decline
For a country in search of new heroes, as the old ones bid farewell, erstwhile South African finance minister,…
Rejoice and despair
Even as economic growth was negative in the concluding quarter of 2016, it was positive for the full year; though a…
Steady as it goes
It would be recalled in my column of 3 January 2017 (“Will Nigeria get out of recession in Q1-2017?”), I suggested…
Itinerant Nigerians
It is almost always true that when abroad and you sight a black man, it is well worth taking the risk that the…
When Buhari returns
Considering The Most High did bring to naught the futile calculations of dark figures around Umar Musa Yar’Adua,…
Foreigners welcome
Xenophobia, that odious human phenomenon, reared its ugly head in South Africa last week. With chilling…
Stage is set
As has become the tradition days before his budget statements, at least for the last two, South African…
Future of banking
About 40 percent of Nigeria’s 88 million adult population is financially excluded. Digital financial services…
Zuma’s long goodbye
Jacob Zuma, the embattled South African president, would deliver a State of the Nation Address (SONA) on 9…
Justice for Onnoghen
This country, which gets by despite its rampaging leaders, who live off our commonwealth with impunity and use…
CBN & SARB to keep rates steady
Interest rate decisions by the Nigerian and South African central banks coincide this week. They are both likely to…
Jammeh must go
It cannot be gainsaid how crucial it is to ensure Yahya Jammeh, Gambia’s outgoing president, relinquishes power,…