By Marcel Okeke What has been happening in the downstream sector, and particularly the refining sub-sector, of the Nigerian oil and gas industry in the past couple of years is…
By Marcel Okeke It’s really a serious irony that at a time that Nigeria is expected to be literally swimming in the ocean of humongous unplanned foreign exchange (FX) inflow,…
By Marcel Okeke The similarity between the highlights of the International Labor Organization (ILO’s) May Day 2026 message and the focus of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Workers’ Day address is…
By Marcel Okeke In the past couple of years, as Nigeria’s economic reforms have kept toughening the investment climate, most discerning investors have taken a ‘flight to safety’. This, they…
By Marcel Okeke Today, it is obvious that the state of the Nigerian economy is, in almost all respects, the same as the immediate post-fuel subsidy removal time in the…
By Marcel Okeke One of the highlights of the ‘gains’ of President Bola Ahmed Tiubu’s recent state visit to the United Kingdom (UK) was the signing of a Memorandum of…
By Marcel Okeke It is really worth celebrating that the bank recapitalization exercise of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) came to a successful conclusion on March 31, 2026, twenty-four…
By Marcel Okeke The above headline is necessitated by the continuing diminishing foreign direct investments (FDIs) inflow into Nigeria in the past couple of years, in spite of the ‘booming’…
By Marcel Okeke Within a space of three weeks, the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol has almost doubled; rising from below N800 per liter (at the pump)…
By Marcel Okeke It remains undisputable that Nigeria is a mono-product economy; having crude oil (and some gas) as the mainstay of its economy for several decades. Consequently, the fate…
By Marcel Okeke The palpable optimism that hallmarked practically all the analyses and projections about Nigeria’s economic outlook for this year has effectively been shattered by developments in the local…
By Marcel Okeke While the entire world remains on edge following the United States of America-Israel military strike on Iran last weekend, one of the upshots of the incident has…
By Marcel Okeke Without any technical jargons or the blame games currently ongoing in the Presidency and topmost echelon of the officialdom, the stark reality is that the President Bola…
By Marcel Okeke It is most intriguing that at a time Nigeria’s capital importation (hence, external reserves) is rising in leaps and bounds, the country’s crude oil production (output) remains…
By Marcel Okeke For the umpteenth time, successive governments in Nigeria, including the sitting Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, have flaunted proposals to sale some of the nation’s ‘rotting’ assets in…
By Marcel Okeke The popular idiom: “The chicken has come home to roost,” seems to be playing out in the Nigerian financial services industry where the policies of the Central…
By Marcel Okeke Claims about the stabilization of the Nigerian economy have been made ad nauseam (to an excessive degree) since mid-2025; meaning that hitherto, it had remained fragile and…
By Marcel Okeke For upwards of a decade-and-half, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been implementing the financial inclusion and cashless economy initiative. Introduced in 2011, the policy aimed…
By Marcel Okeke The Federal Government has announced the establishment of ‘Nigeria House’ in Davos during the 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2026, scheduled to take…
By Marcel Okeke These are really uncertain times for all nations of the world; the emergence of Mr. Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States of…
By Marcel Okeke One of the crucial steps in strategic planning is an assessment of the current situation: to know exactly where you are; and take proper note of what…
By Marcel Okeke When, on Friday, December 19, 2025—twelve days to end of the year—President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented the 2026 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National…
By Marcel Okeke The truth, they say, is constant: in the face of outright falsehood, half-truths, propaganda and prevarications, the truth will always stand out. This is why a country…
By Marcel Okeke On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, a body known as the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) held its 2025 Awards and Gala Night at the State House…
By Marcel Okeke The decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) after its meeting on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, to retain the benchmark…
By Marcel Okeke If the heightened insecurity in Nigeria has led to anything in recent times, it is the spreading and deepening of uncertainty in the polity. This trend assumed…
By Marcel Okeke The number and variety of taxes proposed, or already imposed by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration in its 30-month of existence have begun to generate a…
By Marcel Okeke Since Friday, October 31, 2025, when President Donald Trump of the United States of America designated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), there has been…
By Marcel Okeke A very noxious and worrisome media report about Nigeria came into public space recently, but appeared overshadowed and subdued by a deluge of other news and information…
By Marcel Okeke Palpable jubilation has been going on in Nigeria, especially in the officialdom and the financial sector in the past few days owing to the country’s removal from…
By Marcel Okeke In what looks like an irony, Nigeria is being ranked among countries with the largest number of hungry and poor people in the world at a time…
By Marcel Okeke About 30 months into President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 48-month tenure, one of the Bretton Woods institutions—The World Bank—has begun to sing discordant tunes with Nigeria in respect…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
