Tag: economy

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May 16, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: Lessons from the Nigerian economy

by Cheta Nwanze First lesson is that our government thinks that poverty alleviation is handing out largesses, creating jobs that ...

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April 22, 2014

Opinion: Nigeria, the strongest economy in Africa indeed

by Abiola Oladimeji One does not even need any foreign comment in order to know that the pronouncement of Nigeria ...

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April 15, 2014

Demola Rewaju: Rebase the GDP all you can but we are still poor

by Demola Rewaju All that the announcement did was to make official something we’ve known all along but the way ...

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April 13, 2014

Reno Omokri: Nigeria’s GDP rebasing adds value to every citizen

by Reno Omokri The thing that they fail to understand is that any Nigerian who discredits the rebasing of Nigeria’s ...

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April 13, 2014

Simon Kolawole: Nigeria’s GDP rebasing – No, we haven’t arrived yet

by Simon Kolawole Good news. Nigeria now houses the largest economy in Africa. We achieved this by simple arithmetic we ...

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April 8, 2014

Opinion: Let’s talk about these new GDP numbers

by Ifeanyi Uddin Evidently, despite the new ginormous size of our economy, there is an equally humongous opportunity for improvement. ...

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April 7, 2014

Frank Onuoha: Nigeria is the largest economy in Africa – why we should care

by Frank Onuoha We made history – I like to think it is for good – by beating the South ...

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April 7, 2014

Cheta Nwanze: What Nigeria needs to know about the ‘global economy’

by Cheta  Nwanze Today’s piece is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they ...

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April 1, 2014

Atiku Abubakar: What the National Conference should focus on

by Atiku Abubakar I come from the north, and I can tell you that government’s reliance on oil revenues has ...

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March 29, 2014

Adaobi Okwy: The church and a certain type of ignorance (Y! Superblogger)

by Adaobi Okwy The Holy Book says that we perish because of our lack of knowledge and I believe this ...

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March 27, 2014

Feyi Fawehinmi: Why Innoson’s Innocent Chukwuma is exciting (Warning: Long Read)

by Feyi Fawehinmi But the early days were characterised by him doing all sorts of different things as the opportunities ...

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March 20, 2014

Opinion: The thin line between out of work and out of hire

by Uzoma Elenwoke Having stated my case, I would want to see our government take a stronger stance on unemployment ...

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March 8, 2014

Opinion: National Conference – The Ogonis are a part of Nigeria too

by Saatah Nubari The fact that the Ogoni’s have always addressed the issues of injustice meted out to them peacefully, ...

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March 1, 2014

Opinion: $20 billion is ‘missing’, ASUP is on strike & GEJ is still saying ‘no comment’

by Gladys Nwachukwu Through all this chaos, I have paused to wonder. ASUU might have called off their strike, but ...

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February 25, 2014

Opinion: How Africans underdeveloped Africa

by Amir Abdulazeez We are now in 2014, 42 years after the book: ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ by Walter Rodney ...

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February 13, 2014

Opinion: Lagos and the threat of Boko Haram

by Dele Agekameh Before the latest threat, security agents had uncovered and dismantled the plot by the alleged terrorists to ...

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February 10, 2014

Opinion: Asari Dokubo is a big fat liar

by Bayo Oluwasanmi Only in Nigeria can the type of Dokubo – an anachronistic belligerent with a shrilled tone that’s ...

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February 8, 2014

Opinion: 2014 Budget- The APC mob is out

by Abdullahi M. Seidu During the debate of the 2014 budget at the national assembly, the mob mentality of the ...

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January 24, 2014

Chuba Ezekwesili: The effect of ‘I no get change’ policy

by Chuba Ezekwesili Interestingly enough, the issue of change might have a smaller counter-effect of increasing the exchange of goods ...

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January 21, 2014

Opinion: Let us kill subsidy before it kills us

by Henry Boyo Should Nigerians endure abject poverty in spite of increasing wealth for our serial economic predators or are ...

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January 15, 2014

Okey Ndibe: On Nigeria’s new ‘MINTED’ hope

by Okey Ndibe Nigeria’s economic policy makers are understandably giddy about Mr. O’Neill’s flattering prognosis. I’d caution the infusion of ...

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January 14, 2014

Elnathan John: Why I decided to forgive Stella Oduah

by Elnathan John And citizens wont blame you if the economy crashes. They will blame the president. Everything is the ...

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January 14, 2014

Opinion: How Nigeria will join the MINT nations… or not

by Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u Watch out, MINT will feature as an achievement during the 2015 electioneering campaign by Nigerian politicians, ...

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January 13, 2014

Perry Brimah: What is good for Sanusi is good for Jonathan

by Perry Brimah Sanusi gave me his word, Mr. President. He will resign after you and your coterie do the ...

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January 12, 2014

Simon Kolawole: Minting our way to the top

by Simon Kolawole Let me state clearly that I am not one of those who expect Nigeria to develop overnight. ...

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January 10, 2014

Opinion: Nigeria and its phantom MINT projections

by Nasir Suwaid The basic fundamental problem though is the fact that valid projections should always be premised on certain ...

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January 2, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Nigeria – Many are tenants in the mortuary and landlords in the cemetery

by Dele Agekameh There are so many things to talk about, but we should bear it in mind that the ...

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January 1, 2014

For the Record: President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2014 New Year message to Nigerians (Full text)

by Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR Between 2007 and 2013, we have almost tripled the allocation for education from N224 ...

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December 28, 2013

Opinion: Really, there isn’t much to thank President Jonathan for in 2013

by Niran Adedokun However, the reality is that Nigeria cannot feed its citizens. There is suffocating hunger all over the ...

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December 24, 2013

Opinion: The budget and our expectations for the new year

by Ifeanyi Uddin The drama, last week, started with the exchange of missives whose contents ministered well to purveyors of ...

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