Sokoto State commissioner for budget and economic planning Bala Kokani says many Nigerians are unwilling to pay taxes and revenues, stressing that improved internal revenue generation by the three tiers of government is key to taking Nigeria out of recession. He stated this at a...

The presidential prophecy on ending current economic recession before this year ends is quite reassuring. However, some antitheses have been put forward by Nigerians arguing that the 2017 federal ‘Budget of Recovery and Growth’ is short of critical budgetary ingredients that could spontaneously stimulate...

Nigeria’s 2016 budget was tagged budget of economic recovery and growth strategy. It was aimed at pulling the economy out of recession and stagflation. Africa’s largest economy slipped into recession second quarter of 2016 having had two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth rate....

Happy new year to my brothers and sisters both at home and in Diaspora. 2016 was an uncommon year in the annals of our history. A year in which people created into wealth by the abundant mineral deposits in every nooks and crannies of...

The World Bank has predicted that Nigeria will get out of recession and grow its Gross Domestic Product by one per cent this year after plunging into its worst recession in over two decades. The bank said in a statement, “Sub-Saharan African growth is expected...

By January 2017 which is just a little over 25 days away, the economic depression in Nigeria will be clocking the six month period analysts postulate for such situation to be a passing phase in the life of a nation. Advanced democracies with leading...