At 64, Nigeria is failing; it’s the troubled ‘giant’ of Africa
Like other nations that secured independence from their colonial rulers, Nigeria celebrates its freedom annually, as it did recently on...
- Tuesday, October 28, 2025
BusinessDay
Like other nations that secured independence from their colonial rulers, Nigeria celebrates its freedom annually, as it did recently on...
Outrageous! How dare you say the United Nations should run elections in Nigeria, a sovereign state? That’s how some will...
Last week, I wrote about the dire economic consequences for Nigeria as a petrostate almost solely reliant on oil and...
The latest foreign trade data show that Nigeria recorded a trade balance of N6.52 trillion in the second quarter of...
It is the age-old chicken and egg question. Which comes first: the economy or politics? That’s the question at the...
Trust Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s self-assured yet bumbling president. He will claw at any piece of seemingly good news. Recently, when...
Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president, recently inaugurated two ‘economic’ groups. The first is the 31-member Presidential Economic Coordination Council, PECC. The...
Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa, is a product of the Nigerian state. By deliberate policy choices, the state...
Nigeria is one of the few countries where the young far outnumber the old. The average age in Nigeria is...
Recently, the Financial Times interviewed me for a special report on Nigeria. The FT had interviewed me a few times...