Article(s) about Nigeria

Out of curiosity I trawled the internet for Corporate Governance in Nigeria and most of the results I found came up with information to do with the banking and insurance sub-sector. I was interested in how our federal government departments managed their everyday businesses more so with regards to [Read more]

Entrepreneurship education serves as a panacea to social economic problems. The present situation in Nigeria posed serious threats and challenges to both government and well-meaning citizens. These socio-economic problems call for different strategies and action for it to be ameliorated. [Read more]

Report Highlights: The Central Bank of Nigeria continues to restrict access to foreign exchange in an effort to reduce rapid spending of U.S. dollars outside of Nigeria.  This restriction is hindering all direct imports, including food and agricultural products.  Post estimates that [Read more]

1. Is Nigeria developing a Single-Term Syndrome? The appointment of a new governor to lead the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from June 2014 to June 2019 brings the number of persons so appointed since 29 May 1999 to four, although only the last two appointments were made after the 2007 CBN Act [Read more]

Disparities in endowments of agricultural, mineral and commercial wealth across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones determine the rates at which the different regions can grow. Economic activities and growth are concentrated in four regions, while the remaining two regions are largely excluded [Read more]

Nigeria has long been trying to learn how best to manage boom-bust cycles in global commodity prices, adopting an oil-price benchmark for annual budgets while saving revenues above the benchmark in an excess crude account in the half decade before the 2008/2009 global crisis. The crisis and its [Read more]

This piece documents the facts of the supply-side recovery in Nigeria in the last few years and identifies the triggers. It then discusses the challenges the new turn of events pose to policy makers, who are only just responding to the previous downturn. Data that have become available since [Read more]