Nigeria @ 65: How Near is the Economic Eldorado?
By Marcel Okeke The speech by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the 65th independence anniversary of Nigeria, October 1, 2025 would seem to have presented to Nigerians a picture of…
Author: Marcel Okeke
The author, Okeke, a practicing Economist, Business Strategist, Sustainability expert and ex-Chief Economist of Zenith Bank Plc, lives in Lekki, Lagos. He can be reached via: obioraokeke2000@yahoo.com (08033075697) SMS only
The Nigerian Exchange and Illusion of Progress
By Marcel Okeke The title of this piece is motivated by another article captioned: “MTN and the Illusion of Progress,” which I found in one WhatsApp platform, written by Chief…
Nigeria’s Economic Stability: Disinformation as Enlightenment?
By Marcel Okeke It looked very bizarre, that on September 3, 2025 when the leadership of the Buhari Organization visited President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, he opted to use the occasion…
Nigeria: From Fuel Subsidy to Petrol Tax
By Marcel Okeke Nigeria has really turned a full circle in so short a time: from the government paying heavy subsidy on fuel (premium motor spirit, PMS) consumption to Nigerians…
Nigeria: Any Hope in Renewed Hope Economic Blueprint?
By Marcel Okeke Well over two years into its four-year tenure, the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) seems to be making moves to take the critical…
Reforms: Is Nigeria Customs Courting Another Economic Crisis?
By Marcel Okeke In the name of reforms, the Nigerian economy has been taken through all manner of ‘trial-and-error’ initiatives in the past two years of the President Bola Ahmed…
Reviewing Nigeria’s Revenue Sharing Formula: Another Planning without Facts?
By Marcel Okeke Nearly sixty years ago, a book titled: “Planning without Facts: Lessons in Resource Allocation from Nigeria’s Development” was written by Wolfgang F. Stolper, with contributions from Nicholas…
The Persisting Dearth of FDI in Nigeria and its Implications
By Marcel Okeke Nigeria recorded the highest quarterly capital importation of US$5.6 billion since 2020 during the first quarter 2025, according to the latest report of the National Bureau of…
Nigeria: It’s Time to Dispose of Decrepit, Bankrupt Refineries
By Marcel Okeke “Port-Harcourt Refinery Not for Sale”: This headline of a story published recently in a number of online and offline media, shocked the vast majority of Nigerians to…
Rebased Economy: Nigeria’s Gains, Losses and Fresh Challenges
By Marcel Okeke The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has, through the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), rebased the economy after over a decade when the last rebasing exercise was…
Tight Monetary Policy: A Choke on Nigerian Economy?
By Marcel Okeke To the utter disappointment and shock of most businesses, analysts and ardent observers of the Nigerian economy, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of…
U.S.-Africa Summit: Whither Nigeria?
By Marcel Okeke For decades, Nigeria, the country that is home to the largest black population in the world, has proudly carried the epithet: ‘Giant of Africa.’ For this, it…
The World Bank’s Alert on Rapid Growth of Poverty in Nigeria
By Marcel Okeke One of the cheerleader-organizations of Nigeria’s recent economic reforms—The World Bank—seems to have turned a turncoat, and raised a worrisome alarm on the rapid growth of extreme…
Nigerian Economy: A Breeding Ground for Ponzi Schemes?
It has become very easy to blame patrons of Ponzi schemes (fraudulent investment scams) for their greed and ignorance. But, despite the general awareness creation about the dangers of those…