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)

Deliberately or otherwise, the Nigerian government has been depending on inflow from Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI), ‘Ways and

“Nigeria is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, with skyrocketing inflation, a national currency in free-fall and millions of

This piece is prompted by the turn of events since the withdrawal of the operational licence of Heritage Bank Limited during the first

Barely seven months after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Olayemi Cardoso, gave a blanket clean bill of health to Nigerian

It is most auspicious at this time, only a few days gone past one year after the inauguration of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu

The question: ‘Can the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) curb the high and rising inflation in the country with the endless hiking of the

To the chagrin and utter bewilderment of practically all economic agents in the Nigerian polity, the national currency, the Naira, has

    In the twilight years of the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in Nigeria, foreign investors

After close to one century-and-half of operations in Nigeria, the multinational giant, PZ Cussons Nigeria, has announced its plan to

The report, a few days ago, by one of the Bretton Woods institutions — the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — that Nigeria now ranks