It was Austin Erhabor, a colleague of mine, who forwarded Charles Soludo’s article titled “Buhari vs. Jonathan: Beyond the Election” to my email. When I did not get back to…
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By the grace of God who is the Almighty, all-knowing and the munificent, I and a lot more Nigerians know who Professor Charles Soludo is. I do not want by…
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The news going round is that Nigeria is broke. I, for one, do not believe that fallacy. However, if the treasury is indeed empty or nearing emptiness, then what it…
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With the return of democracy in 1999 it became obvious to those looting the country’s economy using so called national debts that it wouldn’t take long before Nigerians began to …
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To an indolent mind, sexing data to pump up GDP figures is an example of how politicians lie with statistics. But a critical mind will see the ingenuity in such …
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The problem of cards getting jammed in ATMs is traceable to system errors in the machines. It is analogous to cases where the machines fail to dispense cash to customers …
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Sadly, Nigerian employers have turned their recruitment exercises into income-generating ventures. In all, poor jobseekers pay for every job application, with no assurance that the most qualified or exceptional will …
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Although the budget is more of an expected revenue and expenditure within a given period of time, it mirrors how our resources are managed and the areas that the different …
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After it became ignobly clear that General Sani Abacha was ignobly and perversely determined to destroy democratic governance in Nigeria, some academics with social conscience met at the Obafemi Awolowo …
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President Goodluck Jonathan’s economic blue-print for industrialisation is crucial to the development of Nigeria and this has been commended by well meaning progressive Nigerians both at home and abroad…
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Nigeria should seek some unconventional solutions to tackling its power problem. The most plausible way to putting the present power problem behind us is to seek sovereign loans from countries …
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To start development planning in Nigeria, the President should as a matter of urgency, elevate the Minister of National Planning as both Planning and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, while …
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We have been suffering from an oil wealth illusion. Because oil money flows without the people or the government involved, we’ve developed an entitlement mentality. Since some distant nations and …
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Is an economy with high interest rates, high inflation rates, and high unemployment rates growing? Should a highly import dependent and infrastructure deficient economy, be economy?
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Before 2015, let’s send the present incompetent economic team home along with their obsolete textbook development theories. In their place should be a team of vibrant goal-getters, whose mission should …
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Like China before Deng’s economic revolution, Nigeria today tops the world’s corruption, unemployment, and rundown economic charts. Also like China before its economic revolution, Nigeria today is littered with graveyards …