By Marcel Okeke This piece is prompted by a press release issued by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, on behalf of the federal ministry of finance, in which…
By Aniebet James Governor Umo Eno’s claim that his akara business used to generate N10 million monthly has kept the media space buzzing with opinions. But if we look at…
By Marcel Okeke For quite some time now, there appears to be unanimity of opinions that reforms by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) have resulted in the stabilization of…
By Senator Ben Murray-Bruce There is a scene I return to more often than I should. Gilbert’s house in Beverly Hills. One of those evenings where the guest list is…
By ETIM ETIM When we were in secondary school, Prof. Chike Edozien Obi was a renowned mathematician, reputed to be the first Nigerian to hold a doctorate in mathematics. Awarded…
Isaac Samuel Former Vice President and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has described the latest Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Household Expectations Survey as a…
By Marcel Okeke Barely six months to Nigeria’s 2027 general elections, and a few days to the commencement of campaigns, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) and its economic policymakers…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday in Abuja, said growing positive reviews of the economy by experts and favourable economic indicators signal a brighter future for all Nigerians. The…
By Marcel Okeke To core economists and related professionals, the Nigerian economy at present, can be said to be undergoing quick patches; with a lot of the Federal Government’s efforts…
By ETIM ETIM The most highly anticipated public offer in Nigeria’s capital market this year is the forthcoming IPO of Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals FZE (DPRP) expected to open…
By Marcel Okeke Barely ten months to the end of the 48-month first-term tenure of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, the Government on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 set up…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the Presidential Executive Order on Virtual Assets Coordination, 2026, to harmonise the regulation of virtual assets, strengthen cooperation among the nation’s financial, revenue and…
By: Marcel Okeke The significant drop in foreign participation on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) in the last couple of months in the first half 2026 rightly prompts the question…
By Marcel Okeke All of a ‘sudden’, the first six months of year 2026 is gone, marked by the good, the bad, and the ugly. With respect to the Nigerian…
By Marcel Okeke The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN’s) anti-private-sector operations came to a climax recently when the Minister of Works, David Umahi, told cement manufacturers in the country that…
By Marcel Okeke These days, the media space in Nigeria is saturated with economic statistics showing that the country has literally arrived at its Eldorado, economically. Surprisingly, the figures being…
By ETIM ETIM In the night of June 14, or probably early in the morning of April 15, 2014, Boko Haram terrorists invaded Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State…
By Marcel Okeke In the past couple of days, Nigeria’s news media have been inundated with a story saying that capital importation into Nigeria in the first quarter 2026 stood…
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 ETIM ETIM The core investor of Ibom Deep Sea Port, Bollore Consortium, will operate the port for 50 years to recoup its investment, according to the approval granted by…
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 ETIM ETIM We are now in the third week of the war in the Middle East, and the Nigerian economy is in trouble once again. Petrol prices are up…
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 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 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…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Türkiye, on Tuesday in Ankara, said his country targets a $5 billion trade volume with Nigeria, adding that discussions to actualise this…
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 Tony Elumelu The relationship between Nigeria and the United States has long been defined by friendship, shared values, economic ties, and deep connections. As an entrepreneur, my role models…
Presented by: His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja, Friday, 19 December 2025 PROTOCOLS o Distinguished…
By ETIM ETIM Aliko Dangote likes to tell us that he’s been fighting battles all his life and that his wealth is a product of the victories he’s recorded in…
By Jerome Okolo If Allen Ifechukwu Onyema hadn’t pulled out a nice bottle of Veuve Clicquot Brut Rosé at his home (that’s the actual bottle in the photo) the other…
By Celestine Mel It is a pity once more, that this intervention seeks to wrestle with a ghost; a long, brooding echo of fear masquerading as civic concern. The essay…
By Nathan Olaníyì Nigeria’s foreign inflows are rising, but most of the money is chasing yields, not building factories or infrastructure. Without patient capital, growth risks becoming fragile. Nigeria’s economy…
Isaac Samuel Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has attributed the decline of the value of naira to economic policies of the previous administration, which he said…
Isaac Samuel The Minister of Finance Wale Edun and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, on Monday, clashed over the true state of Nigeria’s debt profile. While Abbas…
By ETIM ETIM If any evidence was needed to prove the efficacy of President Tinubu’s fiscal reforms, the latest report from the Ministry of Budget & National Planning would suffice.…
By Tanimu Yakubu When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration dismantled Nigeria’s rigid foreign exchange regime in 2024, critics were quick to call it a currency collapse. The naira plunged to…
By ETIM ETIM I’m pleased that the ARISE Recreational & Leisure Park will open for business in December, according to Gov. Umo Eno who toured the facility yesterday. The park…
The Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Economic Affairs, Dr. Tope Fasua, has hinted that Nigeria is heading toward achieving zero export of crude oil and zero import…
A report by the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development’s (EBID) has shown that Nigeria’s share of West African Gross Domestic Product (GDP), declined from 53.3 per cent to 35.2…
The federal government has disclosed that it would soon achieve a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with one or two of its major trading partners in Africa that will facilitate acceptance…
The British American Tobacco (BAT) Nigeria has called for making Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles the foundation for Nigeria’s industrial and economic transformation. This call was made recently by…
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) has commended the federal government on the enactments of four tax laws that were signed into law by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has called on the Lagos State Government to reconsider the implementation of the ban on single-use plastics (SUPs). The ban is scheduled to take…
Isaac Samuel The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is projecting a massive revenue leap to over N1.27 trillion in 2025, representing a 40 percent increase from the N894.86 billion it realized…
