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A case for SMEs
That Nigeria is a trading economy is not in doubt. This became clearer with the April 2014 GDP rebasing exercise,…
Lagos’ quest for 24-hour economy
Many cities across the world, over the past two decades, have deliberately put in place strategies that would…
As BVN deadline draws near…
As the October 31, 2015 deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to all bank customers to enrol for the…
A tale of two light rail projects
On September 26, Ethiopia made history by becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to have a light railway…
The West and Nigeria’s anti-corruption fight
President Muhammadu Buhari, speaking at the recently concluded 70th General Assembly of the United Nations, urged…
Still on Olu Falae’s kidnap
As we survey contemporary dynamics in Nigeria, senior citizens are likely to sigh and remark that these are not the…
Nigeria’s comatose paper mills
Nigeria owns three major paper and pulp mills. The three paper mills include Nigeria Paper Mill (NPM) Limited…
World Pension Summit and Nigerian pensioners
The African version of the World Pension Summit takes off in Abuja today. The summit is essentially a collaboration…
Hedging against TSA’s unintended consequences
The Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy, which was officially adopted by the federal government for all the…
Ambode’s cabinet and great expectations
Like the Federal Government and some other All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled states, Ambode Akinwunmi has…
55 years of nationhood
Nigeria is 55 years old today. Normally, this should call for celebrations. But these are not normal times. The…
Lagos and affordable housing
Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre and cultural melting pot, due largely to its cosmopolitan nature and…