Nigeria

Guy Ikokwu, a Second Republic politician and a member of the Ime-Obi (inner caucus) of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, in this interview with ZEBULON AGOMUO, Editor,…

Nigeria has a smaller national budget than Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and South Africa. All these countries have fewer citizens, yet significantly more money to spend on them.…

Nigeria is a much more important country than most people in the U.S. probably realize. With more than 190 million people, it’s Africa’s largest country by far (Ethiopia, the second-largest,…

At the recent ICAN / ICAEW Joint Economic Insight event in Lagos, it was established that to attract more foreign investments into the Nigerian economy, the policy environment needs to be…

Cass Sunstein, the renowned American legal scholar, has just written a new book, titled Why Change Happens.  Professor Sunstein explains the different ways that social and political change…

“The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership”, wrote Chinua Achebe in his 1983 book "The Trouble with Nigeria" . Much of the country nodded in agreement then. In…

As Nigeria continue to witness multiple crimes, ranging from kidnapping, banditry among other vices, the former member of the House of Representatives, Usman Shehu Bawa has cautioned…

This week’s write-up will centre on the choices of some Nigerians, whose decisions were timely, appropriate and reasonable to the shaping of the future of this nation positively, rather than…

Following talks between Saudi energy officials and Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s minister of state for petroleum resources, there is a plan to draft a memorandum of understanding on an oil and gas…

Surging crude prices mean another headwind for the world economy after President Donald Trump’s “zero” pledge on Iran oil sales but oil dependent nations like Nigeria will benefit hugely if…