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Beyond its impact as an unprecedented global health crisis, which to date has in health terms impacted Europe and the USA far more than other regions, COVID-19 constitutes a major global…

The last two pieces drew attention to how improper uses of funding and protectionism have stalled Nigeria’s industrialisation efforts over the years. This week’s piece examines how…

In their prickly reaction to my April 16 Washington Post #ChinaMustPay article (a response published in the Guardian Newspaper of May 3, 2020), the Government of China through their…

Last week’s piece focused on the futility of throwing money at Nigeria’s industrial problem. It was argued that while Nigerian industrial drivers would inevitably need funding to scale,…

The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Nigeria on the 27th of February 2020. Just a little over two months ago and, yet, it feels like a lifetime has elapsed. The world we lived in…

Since the outbreak of the coronavirus (Covid-19), a lot of money has been donated and raised in Nigeria to fight and curtail the spread of the virus. Earlier, the Central Bank of Nigeria…

In the last three to four decades, policy makers have adopted different approaches aimed at making Nigeria’s industrial sector competitive. But all of those approaches have either led to…

Nigeria's manufacturing sector has a huge potential to grow and compete with many of its counterparts in most emerging and advanced economies. The sector is made up of 77 various sub…

Perhaps, except in war times that Easter celebration had been cancelled or marked in a low key in Nigeria and some other places in the world, this year will go into the history book of many…

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), countries around the world have experienced pressure in various forms. Apart from the strain the virus has placed on the health sector…