Marcel Okeke
Marcel-Okeke
Marcel Okeke, a practising economist and consultant in Business Strategy & Sustainability based in Lagos, is a former Chief Economist at Zenith Bank Plc. He can be reached at: obioraokeke2000@yahoo.com; +2348033075697 (text only)
The CBEX crash! Another Ponzi tragedy strikes Nigerians again
Marcel Okeke
April 22, 2025
For the umpteenth time, many Nigerian investors have been thrown into pains and anguish as a result of the sudden crash of a digital
Nigeria’s options amidst Trump’s global tariff onslaught
Marcel Okeke
April 15, 2025
Nigeria is already caught in the current complicated web of tariffs levied by the President of the United States of America, Donald
Nigeria’s set up for another hyperinflation monster round
Marcel Okeke
April 7, 2025
At a time that the wild volatility in Nigeria’s macroeconomic indices appears to be abetting, a trigger to (unwittingly) upset the
Unenviable place: ‘Nigeria leads world’ in food insecurity
Marcel Okeke
April 1, 2025
The latest World Food Programme (WFP) ‘Nigeria External Situation Report’ (Number 83) published on January 25, 2025, shows that
No respite in ‘Corporate Exodus’ from Nigeria’s business climate
Marcel Okeke
March 25, 2025
A recent damning report by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) that over seven million small businesses in Nigeria have shut
Bank directors, bad loans, and Nigeria’s banking sector post-2026
Marcel Okeke
March 18, 2025
When the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), early this year, ordered bank directors with non-performing insider-related loans to step down
Economics of money illusion and Tinubu’s challenge to governors
Marcel Okeke
March 11, 2025
‘Money illusion’, in Economics, refers to the tendency of people to confuse the nominal value of money (its face value) with its real
Dangers stare at Nigeria’s budget from global oil market
Marcel Okeke
March 3, 2025
Nigeria’s 2025 budget is couched on an oil price benchmark of $75 per barrel. But on Monday, February 24, 2025, for the first time
Rising living cost, crashing quality of life of Nigerians
Marcel Okeke
February 25, 2025
It is stating the obvious to say that recent economic reforms in Nigeria, particularly the removal of fuel subsidies and fully
Economy: Is Nigeria stuck in ‘progress illusion’?
Marcel Okeke
February 17, 2025
Afrinvest West Africa Limited provided the above headline in its maiden ‘Afrinvest Monthly Update’ for 2025, as a rider to the main