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)

Preparations by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to rebase Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are on a crescendo already. A

At a time when the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is supposed to be rolling out the drums in celebration of its

Warning by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Nigerians not to expect the passage of the 2025 budget before January 31,

Exactly eighteen months into his four-year term, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had his first live media chat on Monday, December 23,

While the cacophonous debates about the Tax Reform Bills are ongoing, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) has since stealthily

Whenever (and if ever) it comes into existence, Nigeria’s 2025 Federal Budget is already a gross violation of the letter and spirit of

The latest damning report of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which says that Nigeria’s business environment will remain among

About two decades after the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) went moribund, and billions of dollars sunk into its repairs, the

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently issued a stern warning to commercial banks in the country against hoarding and selling of

Eventually, the federal government got round to releasing a statement on the 2025 Budget. But this was after what seemed like a