The COVID-19 Quarter The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently released Nigeria’s GDP growth numbers for the second quarter (Q2) of 2020. Expectedly, real GDP contracted by 6.10% year-on-year in …
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A season of gloomy forecasts The Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a huge blow to the global economy. What is fundamentally a public health crisis has led to economic recessions of …
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The outlook for Nigeria and indeed the global economy has worsened owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the emergence of COVID-19, Nigeria’s economy had been on a dire strait …
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GLOBAL OVERVIEW Despite witnessing wars, natural disasters and the Great Recession, this generation is witnessing a unique global health pandemic that has challenged even the most pessimistic of doomsday naysayers. …
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The 2019 Finance Bill was signed by President Buhari on the 13th of January 2020 as part of his administration’s new fiscal reform measures. The Bill proposed new fiscal measures …
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Africa: A Continent of self-inflicted bottlenecks Sao Tome and Principe, an island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, is just about 775KMs from Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. That …
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The Ajaokuta Schools of Thought Analysts have long struggled on a meaningful definition of the Ajaokuta Steel Company project (Ajaokuta). Overtime, Ajaokuta has become a knotty national discourse with two …
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The Reflexive Statist According to The Economist, leaders do not tend to switch from being reflexive statists in first terms to free-marketers in the second. This argument by The Economist …
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The Social Contract Based on the theory of social contract, the government and the governed are bound by an unwritten rule, where the governed provide resources to the government, with …
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Why the Euphoria? The positive press that greeted Nigeria’s 2017 GDP numbers from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) – reflecting the country’s exit from a recession – seems to …
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