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)
Tapping diaspora remittances to rescue Nigeria’s forex crunch
Marcel OkekeJanuary 9, 2024
Unarguably, the greatest challenge facing Nigeria today is its ‘collapsed’ economy, marked by acute shortage of foreign exchange
The World Bank’s unclear economic outlook for Nigeria
Marcel OkekeJanuary 2, 2024
The World Bank, one of the Bretton Woods institutions, in its latest ‘Nigeria’s Development Update’ (NDU) publication, said “important
Grim 2023 Nigeria economy closes with foggy 2024 ahead
Marcel OkekeDecember 26, 2023
By every measure, the year 2023 has been one of the most challenging in living memory to operators in all sectors of the Nigerian
Nigeria’s anticipatory budgeting on illusory money expectations
Marcel OkekeDecember 20, 2023
When, on Monday, December 11, 2023, Mr Wale Edun, minister of finance and coordinating minister of the Nigerian economy, appeared
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.