On Atiku’s Plan to Handover Federal Universities to States, by Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim   “I had an argument with a university professor from Federal University, Lokoja. He said he read in my policy document that I intended to devolve, in other words, to return education to...

CJA2021: ABU Student Emerges Campus Journalist Of The Year   Abdulhaleem Ishaq-Ringim, a first year student of Economics at Ahmadu Bello University(ABU), has emerged the Campus Journalist of the Year during this year’s Campus Journalism Awards, CJA2021 organized by Youths Digest. Mr Ringim, who also bagged the...

Northern Politico-Economic Agenda 2023: Who Would Be Our Tinubu?, by Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim   The title might sound as though the content of the article would be another of those articles drumming support for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidential aspiration. But it isn’t. As a matter...

CBN-Aboki FX Saga: Currency Play and Lessons from Billions TV Show, by Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim     While explaining the reason behind the Central Bank of Nigeria’s clampdown on the parallel market exchange rate aggregation and publication website, AbokiFx, the CBN Governor submitted that the CBN’s preliminary...

Northern Nigeria and VAT: The Imperative Of Industrialization, by Abdulhaleem Ringim       Northern Nigeria has lately been dominating national news headlines following a Federal High Court judgement that shifted Value-Added Tax (VAT) collecting authority to states as opposed to the prevailing status quo that has the...

Oil and the Nigerian Economy: Can We Learn from Norway?  By Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim       Whether or not Nigeria has utilized its oil wealth in a prudent manner is still a topic for national debate. However, considering how dependent the country’s economy has become on oil...