The latest xenophobic attacks on foreigners by South Africans have generated outrage, and condemnation from different parts of the world. Xenophobia has become an endemic attitude as South Africans continue to attack and foreigners and destroy their businesses. Several other Africans have lost their...

Unemployment in Nigeria is primarily a result of failed industries, government policies and failed educational system that produces unskilled and unemployable graduates and a failed political class whose vision of Nigeria have been mostly driven by tribalism, parochialism, institutionalized corruption and a replacement of merit...

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - The raging Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria has hit the region's fishing industry, causing shortages and driving up prices, union leaders say. The major city of Maiduguri has been particularly affected, as the authorities in neighbouring Niger have detained huge...

After many years of work and dilly-dallying, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has finally concluded work on the much anticipated Anti-Trust Bill that will regulate corporations and protect consumers against unfair treatment and monopoly in the country. This is one of the eight reform...

Presidential Election Outcome Neither Buhari nor Jonathan will be able to deliver on the fantastic promises being made in election campaigns on the economy, and if oil prices remain below $60, I see very difficult months ahead, with possible heady collisions with labour, civil society,...

It is often the complain of officials of the Ministry of Finance, Budget Office and Debt Management Office to cite the 2010 increment of national minimum wage to N18,900 per month as reason for the astronomical increase in recurrent budget. However, analysis of official...