Economic Confidential

Balanced budget as the responsible platform for MTEF

The Debt Management Office recently indicated on its website that Nigeria's total debt is currently about N7.93tn ($50.92bn). Domestic debt accounts for almost $44bn, while external debt just falls short of US$7bn.  Thus, our consolidated national debt may currently...

Nigerians: Don’t be passive, gullible or scared

As much as the citizens may try, they can never have a perfect country. All they can do, generationally and intergenerationally, is to strive for progress no matter how small or slow that might be. Hence, in many societies...

MDGs: Investing in Health Sector

From the outset, let me commend the Fathers of Family Medicine in Nigeria and the Society of Family Physicians of Nigeria for their efforts aimed at providing the critical mass of highly trained frontline physicians needed to improve Nigeria's...

National Confab and Challenges of Nationhood

"I prefer the most unjust peace to the justest war that was ever waged"  -Cicero (1981) It was late premier of Northern Nigeria, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello who is quoted to have said that "By understanding our differences, we can build...

Governors to raise nine questions on economy

Governors are disturbed by the state of the economy, which has remained hazy to them. They are to raise nine issues on Thursday at the meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC), which has not been convened in the past...

World leaders praise Nigeria on $1tr global trade deal

World leaders have lauded Nigeria’s initiative that facilitated the first-ever global trade reform agreement, which has the potential to add $1 trillion to the global economy. The agreement followed five-days of negotiations in Bali, Indonesia. The outcome is an offshoot of...
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