7 issues to shape SMEs in 2017
The year 2016 was challenging for Nigerian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), according to key…
BoI commits N4bn to underserved micropreneurs through 23…
The Bank of Industry (BoI) has devoted N4.23 billion to the underserved and under-banked micro entrepreneurs at…
Manufacturers to expand local sourcing of raw materials…
The foreign exchange crisis of 2016 is forcing a paradigm shift in the Nigerian manufacturing sector as many…
Power plants suffer on Nigeria’s gas contradiction
While 12 power stations could not produce electricity during off-peak period during the last holiday was due to gas…
Economic crime and the rule of law (Part 1)
Being a non-lawyer, I feel quite intimidated addressing an audience heavily dominated by lawyers and high-powered…
The 2017 Budget speech: Why Buhari’s economic ideas are…
President Buhari’s speech to the National Assembly last December on the 2017 budget was, for all intents and…
CBN: Time to defend the integrity of our institutions
Of late, we have been shouting ourselves hoarse over the open takeover of the monetary policy powers of the Central…
Price of Kerosene up by 60 % in Kaduna
The price of Kerosene, an essential household commodity, has increased by 60 per cent in Kaduna, from N1,100 a…
‘The coming of United Labour Congress will not undermine…
Joe Ajaero, president of the newly inaugurated United Labour Congress (ULC), spoke with select Labour…