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In the first week of February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the country's trade figures for last year. Importantly, we appeared to have sold more last year (N22.45tn) to the rest of the world, than we bought off them (N5.62tn). At least one analyst that I read on this, proceeded to account for the growth in our foreign [...]
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Yewande Omotosho, a Nigerian-Barbadian, naturalised South African Citizen, is among the four female writers who have since commenced the March-April 2013 Ebedi Residency in Iseyin, Oyo State. The Cape Town, South African based writer, Yewande has a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town as well as a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the same University. Her [...]
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The strongest case for second-guessing the Monetary Policy Committee's (the MPC is the Central Bank of Nigeria's rate-setting arm) likely decision(s) when it meets Monday, next week, was made almost a month ago. Most serious watchers of the economy expected a lower inflation count for January this year, simply because the federal government's half-successful attempt at removing the "subsidy" on [...]
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At a recent consultative session with a delegation of the Nigerian Parliament, the National Assembly, the issue of women's participation in politics came up, and one of the male parliamentarians said: "it's not that we dislike your (women's) participation in politics, in fact the Nigerian constitution does not discriminate against women, it's just that you women are mostly not organised [...]
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Growing up in the Nigeria of the eighties, without internet, the only other sources of connection with the larger world were the black-and-white (and later colour) television in the living room, and the books that lay scattered in many shelves around the house. In-between those, a young precocious child gains insight into what had gone before, took imaginative trips to [...]
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by Ikhide Ikheloa For you ... I have this note that says call me tomorrow Tomorrow never comes because I never call you Today never ends because you never call me. I. Another summer escapes into our dreams' pool slinks, sizzles, spent, drowns wet kids' hopes. Hooray, another alien season dies in Babylon. Our wallet shoos off ice [...]
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by Sunday Akonni Moshood CIVILIAN TO POLICE Hey, non-prestigious friend! You clad in dark uniform attire, Glued to your gluttonous body Like a bird to its feather! As you parade in the lazy pride it gives, It sour scent troubles civilians stomachs! "Police is your friend!" You chewed and spat the lofty words, seeking undeserved handshakes! But [...]
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The recent resolution by the House of Representatives calling on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop the "dollarisation" of the economy is indicative of how poorly the economy is being run. Two related preliminary observations. One, the CBN is not driving this process. (Two), it is instead, the consequence of the "uncoordinated" actions of disparate local actors in [...]
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During the course of an interactive session with members of the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) ad-hoc Constitution Review committee, at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the NASS delegation alluded severally to the power of Facebook and Twitter in engagement on national issues. The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, RT Hon. Emeka Ihedioha encouraged Nigerians to continue using [...]
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The next presidential election scheduled for 2015 is still two years away, but one may be forgiven to think that it is only a few months from now. In what can only be described as a dog-eat-dog affair, the ruling People's Democratic Party is being racked by a tumultuous struggle for power between former president Olusegun Obasanjo and the incumbent, [...]
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