The growth delusion: Why economic growth is meaningless in Nigeria
Last week, virtually every newspaper in Nigeria trumpeted the news that the economy grew at its highest rate in four...
- Thursday, June 04, 2026
BusinessDay
Last week, virtually every newspaper in Nigeria trumpeted the news that the economy grew at its highest rate in four...
Judicial activism in electoral matters is now prevalent in Nigeria. Abraham Lincoln famously defined democracy as “the government of the...
The system of government that a country adopts can determine its political and economic progress. That’s why countries choose a...
It would be simplistic to say that running a country is not rocket science. It can be complex. Yet, human...
Last Friday, 31 January 2020, at exactly 11pm, the United Kingdom left the European Union. This followed the result of...
Africa has become the cynosure of all eyes around the world. Every major country wants to be its friend. The...
Quote: So, what does all this tell us about Nigerian billionaires? The first is that rentier or crony capitalism is...
When the Financial Times interviewed me last year for its special report on Nigeria entitled “Investing in Nigeria”, it specifically...
Last December, I wrote in a column entitled Goodbye 2018: The next will be rockier for the world (BusinessDay, 31 December...
In May 2015, Colin Freeman, the chief foreign correspondent the London Telegraph newspaper wrote a piece entitled “Nigeria’s Buhari: from...