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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 and Economic Darwinism in Nigeria

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

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

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

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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:
Before President Buhari Removes Petrol Subsidy

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

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

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

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

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

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