Economic Confidential

Maximizing Renewable Energy in the Power Sector

Nigeria is endowed with oil and natural resources but the country cannot be said to have ever had adequate supply of electricity in the history of its electricity generation. This might get worse, as the country’s population increases and...

Tackling the Menace of Housing Deficit

Nigeria has over 17 million housing deficits and the Federal Government is exploring ways to tackle them fast. To meet this demand, the housing sector has to produce over 700,000 units of housing every year, and unfortunately, the formal...

FAAC Distributes N420bn in November

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) distributed the sum of N420 billion among the three tiers of government in November this year, being the statutory allocations for the month of October. The distributable monthly allocation remained constant with the N420...

Recession: Manufacturers Still Worried Over 14% MPR

Several attempts at salvaging the moribund economy by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) though its Monetary Policy interventions have proved counter-intuitive as manufacturers in the country have continued to express worry over retention of Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at...

Inflation Remains Unstoppable

As we browse towards the end of the year 2016, many Nigerians are not happy that the Federal Government’s promise of short term target of single digit inflation embedded in the 2016 budget has not been realized. The reasons...

Crowding the Private Sector into Africa’s Climate Action

The global community for climate action was spooked by the November 8 election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. The US President-elect had earned the sobriquet of “climate denier,” for his claim that climate...
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