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)
Nigeria’s export boom and imperatives to diversify economy
Marcel Okeke
May 21, 2025
A recent report that Nigeria’s non-oil exports hit $1.7 billion in the first quarter of 2025, marking a significant increase of almost
Nigeria’s new import substitution strategy must go beyond slogan
Marcel Okeke
May 13, 2025
Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the other day, approved a new initiative to
Projections, realities and fantasies of Nigeria’s economic growth
Marcel Okeke
May 6, 2025
Nigeria’s participation at the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank Group spring meetings in Washington D.C, exposed
The signs suggest Nigeria heading for a failed census
Marcel Okeke
April 29, 2025
On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took a major step towards the realization of the proposed national
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