Oil shocks and devaluation of the Naira
Barely eight months after the rebasing of Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP), which places the country as the largest economy…
Towards stability in NNPC
Recently, there was a change of guard at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as President Goodluck Jonathan sacked Engineer…
The oil subsidy conundrum
In the past few years, oil subsidy has become one of the most contentious issues in Nigeria. Indeed, there have…
Nigeria’s warped privatisation programme
Privatization, which transfers ownership of production and control of enterprises from the public to the private sector, is largely viewed…
Politics of oil and succession
Politics of oil and succession Year 2015 will be significant in the political history of Nigeria being an election year.…
National Assembly Jumbo Pay: Defending the indefensible
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An Economy Haunted by “Ghosts”
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All prepped up
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