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)

Unarguably, the greatest challenge facing Nigeria today is its ‘collapsed’ economy, marked by acute shortage of foreign exchange

The World Bank, one of the Bretton Woods institutions, in its latest ‘Nigeria’s Development Update’ (NDU) publication, said “important

By every measure, the year 2023 has been one of the most challenging in living memory to operators in all sectors of the Nigerian

When, on Monday, December 11, 2023, Mr Wale Edun, minister of finance and coordinating minister of the Nigerian economy, appeared

Even with the seemingly intensified efforts of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration to attract foreign investors into

Monetary policy and fiscal policy are the two most widely recognised tools used to influence a nation’s economic activities. By

If Nigerians and indeed the global community ever needed information on policy direction on the Nigerian economy, it is now more than

Another corporate giant, Sanofi-Aventis Nigeria Limited, like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), is about to exit Nigeria; but says it is adopting

In the past one week, no fewer than three major countries have issued security alerts or advisories on Nigeria. Within a space of 45

It is indeed vacuous to posit that the progress of an economy is not necessarily a function of the strength of its national currency.