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)

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At a time that the wild volatility in Nigeria’s macroeconomic indices appears to be abetting, a trigger to (unwittingly) upset the
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Marcel OkekeApril 1, 2025

The latest World Food Programme (WFP) ‘Nigeria External Situation Report’ (Number 83) published on January 25, 2025, shows that
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Marcel OkekeMarch 25, 2025

A recent damning report by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) that over seven million small businesses in Nigeria have shut
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Marcel OkekeMarch 18, 2025

When the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), early this year, ordered bank directors with non-performing insider-related loans to step down
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Marcel OkekeMarch 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
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Marcel OkekeMarch 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
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Marcel OkekeFebruary 25, 2025

It is stating the obvious to say that recent economic reforms in Nigeria, particularly the removal of fuel subsidies and fully
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Marcel OkekeFebruary 17, 2025

Afrinvest West Africa Limited provided the above headline in its maiden ‘Afrinvest Monthly Update’ for 2025, as a rider to the main
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Marcel OkekeFebruary 12, 2025

In a curious move, and within a space of two weeks, Dangote Refinery changed the price of its fuel (Premium Motor Spirit) twice.
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Marcel OkekeFebruary 4, 2025

Exactly thirty-four days after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented Nigeria’s 2025 Appropriation Bill (on December 18, 2024) to the