Analysis

Nigeria’s non-oil trade could be heading for a revamp with the emergence, Monday, of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Okonjo-Iweala,…

The EndSARS protests which erupted in October over police brutality was different from any other in Nigeria, largely because the movement had no central leadership, could fundraise bypassing…

The retail sector in Nigeria was once a formidable consumer market due to a fast-growing middle class, rising consumer income and urbanisation which made the country an attractive retail…

The non-oil export sector is a reflection of the state of a country’s industrial sector. A poorly structured non-oil export sector is often characterised by the craze to ship out raw and…

Prologue Failed abduction or mere house arrest With the Covid-19 flying protocol, anyone wishing to catch first flight in Port Harcourt would need to be at the international…

"National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is proper to discuss such details in a public forum."—Indian PM Narendra Modi Asymmetric warfare against terrorism is one of…

When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were unveiled in 2015, they were lauded as, arguably, the most robust and inclusive set of goals ever designed for global development, and…

Doing business in Africa is tough. Stories abound of regulatory challenges and policy inconsistencies impacting businesses on the continent. Simple processes like paying taxes, registering a…

Experts, economists and epidemiologists, at the heart of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic which caught the entire world unprepared unleashing a public health and economic crisis in…

United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has left the hospital after a week of treatment for COVID-19 and will go to his official country residence of Chequers in Buckinghamshire to…