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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...

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....

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...

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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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...