Economic Confidential

Wobbling Economy

Professor Emeritus Uka Ezenwe has been an academic for 42 years. The first 30 years he spent teaching Economics at the Ahmadu Bello University before transferring his services to the University of Abuja 12 years ago. In this interview...

Grass to Grace

Barely 2 weeks ago, Olamide Adedeji, aka Badoo, signed a multimillion naira endorsement deal with alcoholic drink Ciroc Ultra Premium vodka. This made him the first Nigerian ambassador for the alcoholic beverage. Before the success, Olamide said: “I hardly got invited to...

Motorists left baffled by modern dashboards

If women can’t read maps and men always lose their keys, there is at least one aspect about driving that unites the sexes: neither has a clue when it comes to identifying dashboard warning lights. Nearly all motorists who...

FG Decries Multiple taxation in Nigeria

The Federal Government has decried incidences of multiple taxation in the country, saying it is harmful to the economy. Finance  Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who made the position of the goverrnment known at the presentation of the roadmap on the harmonisation...

Between Banking Reformation and National Transformation

In July 2014, it will be ten years since Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, a brilliant academic-cum-development expert, former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and now a politician, initiated the banking industry consolidation agenda. The following month will...

Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund And Inter-generational Equity

On May 11, 2011 the Nigerian Senate approved the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority Bill, 2010, which sought to establish a sovereign wealth fund to manage excess profits from the country’s sale of crude oil. Before then, it had been...
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