- Tuesday, June 16, 2026
BusinessDay
The first budget of President Muhammadu Buhari was already in trouble the day it was read! The budget had been...
In the last six months or so, I have been under some intense pressure from two angles – those looking...
Thank heavens that Mary Jones, a Welsh girl born on 16 December 1784, brought Bible Societies to the world. During her life time,...
Foremost Oxford economists, Paul Collier and Anthony Venables, argue – in their 2007 paper, “Rethinking trade preferences: how Africa can...
Last week we sought to make the case for the developmental state paradigm. Today we conclude by looking at the...
Barely three weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari took office, I wrote a column titled: “What Buhari must know about the...
We had arrived at a private school in Abuja to see the Principal, my spouse and I and we were...
Elections are very expensive events. Besides the huge financial outlay required by the electoral management body and security agencies to...
There have been renewed concerns in recent times about the rule of law in Nigeria. Most Nigerians – this columnist...
A couple of weeks ago following the worrisome sack of many PDP governors and legislators by the Court of Appeal, I...
At the time of writing, I pondered on the philosophy behind Nigeria’s economy since independence in 1960. Today, it may be difficult to say categorically that Nigeria is operating a...
African countries should only allow duty-free manufactured goods’ imports for the same amount of manufactured goods that they export.Customs duties...
Last year, the Commonwealth Secretariat invited me to join the technical review committee for a major trade report to be...
The collective traumas that the mass of our population have endured in recent years – the insurgency in the north...
Clearly, not every tradition is worth preserving and celebrating,” I said, taking over the task of Complainer-in-Chief. “You’re talking about...
