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)
Once again, the crash of Naira, Nigeria’s currency!
Marcel OkekeMay 20, 2024
To the chagrin and utter bewilderment of practically all economic agents in the Nigerian polity, the national currency, the Naira, has
FPIs return to rescue Nigeria from FX crisis
Marcel OkekeMay 15, 2024
In the twilight years of the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in Nigeria, foreign investors
Nigeria: Wooing investors abroad, losing them at home
Marcel OkekeMay 7, 2024
After close to one century-and-half of operations in Nigeria, the multinational giant, PZ Cussons Nigeria, has announced its plan to
Africa’s first now fourth: Running down Nigeria’s economy in 10 years
Marcel OkekeApril 30, 2024
The report, a few days ago, by one of the Bretton Woods institutions — the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — that Nigeria now ranks
Return of subsidy amid Nigeria’s falling oil production
Marcel OkekeApril 23, 2024
Nigeria’s crude oil production has witnessed its second consecutive monthly decline, dropping to 1.231 million barrels per day (mbpd)
Nigeria’s Naira: The trashing of ECOWAS’ lead currency
Marcel OkekeApril 16, 2024
Once upon a time, Nigeria’s national currency, the Naira, was the most sought-after medium of exchange and store of value within the
The pathway and hurdles in Nigeria’s bank recapitalisation
Marcel OkekeApril 9, 2024
Effectively, the recapitalisation process for Nigerian banks under the Olayemi Cardoso leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
Tinubu’s economy panels must recognise the urgency of ‘NOW’!
Marcel OkekeApril 3, 2024
Nine full months into the tenure of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, it is becoming increasingly clear that rather than
CBN dabbles into agric murky waters over food inflation
Marcel OkekeMarch 26, 2024
In what could be seen as an outright volte-face, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, on Wednesday,
Nexus between banks ‘dying’ and Nigeria’s monetary policies
Marcel OkekeMarch 19, 2024
The news that deposit money banks (DMBs) and merchant banks in Nigeria borrowed a humongous sum of N8.7 trillion through the Standing