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President Bola Tinubu and Economic Darwinism in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2024In: GovernanceTags: Big Brother Nigeria, Broad Street entrepreneurs, Dangote refinery, Darwinism, Femi Otedola, Godwin Emefiele, Governor Godwin Obaseki, Mercantilism, NNPCL, President Bola Tinubu, Presidential Economic Coordination Council, Washington Consensus1 CommentViews:

President Bola Tinubu’s reform agenda is still the contestation in town. Its protagonists insist it is the master stroke of a policy approach. Critics deride it as a killer pill. It seems on... Read more

Can the Oshiomholes Shift the Ideological Centre of Gravity in the Tinubu Fraction?

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Adams Oshiomhole, Atiku Abubakar, Bamidele Opeyemi, Chief Olusegun Obasano, IBB, Kalifa Mohammadu Sanusi 11, Lee Kuan Yew, Northern establishment, Nuhu Ribadu, Peter Obi, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Senator George Akume, The Left/Civil Society, Washington ConsensusNo CommentsViews:

One question that dominated at the presentation of Zainab Usman’s book on Diversification of the Nigerian Economy on May 14th, 2023, is why the Nigerian elite has not been able to transform... Read more

Before President Buhari Removes Petrol Subsidy

Posted By: adminon: December 14, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Biden, IBB, Machiavellianism, Neoliberalism, Reaganomics, SAP, Thatcherism, Washington Consensus, World BankNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta I am happy that Dr Kalu Idika Kalu, General Ibrahim Babangida’s Finance Minister in the 1980s, is alive and well. Dr Kalu, working closely with the then Country Representative... Read more

The Covid Crisis is Doing What the 2008 Crash Didn’t: Ending the Old Economic Orthodoxies

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, Larry Summers, Milton Friedman, US Federal Rederve, Washington Consensus, World BankNo CommentsViews:

This is not a controversy but a conversation between two economists although those who can carefully read between or behind the lines can see each’s main hint. The first economist is Larry E... Read more

Like the 1930 Depression, Africa is Going to Pay for Post COVID-19 Recession – Pan-African Activists Warn

Posted By: adminon: May 30, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Funtua, Ogbomosho, Pan-Africanism, SAP, Washington Consensus, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:

One of the ironies of COVID 19 played out today as what was hitherto unthinkable became practicable. The physical gathering for an Africa wide conversation around the life and times of two P... Read more