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)
Corporate exodus continues: An oil major, a FMCG giant
Marcel OkekeDecember 12, 2023
Even with the seemingly intensified efforts of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration to attract foreign investors into
Pulling CBN from dangers of ‘fiscalising’ monetary policy
Marcel OkekeDecember 4, 2023
Monetary policy and fiscal policy are the two most widely recognised tools used to influence a nation’s economic activities. By
The long ominous silence from CBN over MPC meetings
Marcel OkekeNovember 27, 2023
If Nigerians and indeed the global community ever needed information on policy direction on the Nigerian economy, it is now more than
Corporate exit not over for Nigeria’s troubled economy
Marcel OkekeNovember 20, 2023
Another corporate giant, Sanofi-Aventis Nigeria Limited, like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), is about to exit Nigeria; but says it is adopting
Chasing foreign investors against US security alerts
Marcel OkekeNovember 14, 2023
In the past one week, no fewer than three major countries have issued security alerts or advisories on Nigeria. Within a space of 45
Naira needs value for economy to make progress
Marcel OkekeNovember 6, 2023
It is indeed vacuous to posit that the progress of an economy is not necessarily a function of the strength of its national currency.
Another grope in the dark for Nigeria’s 2024 budget
Marcel OkekeOctober 30, 2023
The Holy Book, Chapter 28 verse 29 says: “And thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and thou shall not prosper
(un)Willful asphyxiation of Nigeria’s real sector players
Marcel OkekeOctober 23, 2023
Steadily, an unintended pattern is fast emerging that every policy of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration turns out to be
Nigeria’s forlorn search for foreign direct investment
Marcel OkekeOctober 16, 2023
Senator Adams Oshiomhole practically shocked the entire world the other day, during the screening of the new helmsman at the Central
Export drive strategy for Nigeria’s FX crises
Marcel OkekeOctober 9, 2023
Certainly, if Nigeria has not made much progress in its economic growth and development strides, it is essentially because of its very