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Obasanjo’s 18-page Letter
Since Olusegun Obasanjo’s 18-page missive to President Goodluck Jonathan came into the public domain mid last week,…
Whither Nigeria’s global LNG market share?
Driven by a growing demand for natural gas and impacted by macroeconomic fundamentals, technology evolution and…
All is not well with Nigeria
The public acknowledgement made recently by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the co-ordinating minister for the economy and…
Will the real Okonjo-Iweala please rise up?
Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has championed fiscal…
Nigeria’s agric sector, many gains, greater challenges
The Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the current administration has made some commendable achievements. At…
Towards a vibrant petrochemical industry
The significance of a vibrant petrochemical industry to an economy cannot be over-emphasised. The petrochemicals…
New automotive policy and lessons from the past
There are very strong indications that car buyers in Nigeria will be made to pay more for both new and used cars…
Nigeria’s decline on the corruption index
This week, Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranked Nigeria 144 out of 177…
Gladiators, sabre –rattling and the future of Nigeria’s…
The long drawn contest between academic staff of Nigeria’s public universities and the federal government over…
Growing non-oil earnings
Earnings from the non-oil sector of the economy rose by 236.4 percent in third quarter of 2013 and 362.0 percent…
Reviving interest in stock market investments
Five years ago, retail investors watched in panic as their portfolios and the stock market plunged by 70 percent…
Nigeria’s poor rating on ease of tax payment
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has ranked Nigeria 170th out of 189 countries in its 2014 global ease of paying taxes…