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)
Cost of economic progress for Nigeria’s new government
Marcel OkekeJune 5, 2023
Without any iota of doubt, Nigeria was the cynosure of all eyes on Monday, May 29, 2023, when the country inaugurated its new
MAN’s faulty and misplaced growth target for manufacturing
Marcel OkekeFebruary 27, 2023
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) announced recently a set of plans to increase the output of the manufacturing sector
Buhari puts an end to naira redesign conundrum
Marcel OkekeFebruary 20, 2023
The content of a brief to the diplomatic community on recent monetary policy decisions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) presented
Buhari’s race against time with latest fuel panel
Marcel OkekeFebruary 13, 2023
During the last week of January 2023 and several months after acute fuel or Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) scarcity in the country,
Moody’s moody economic outlook for Nigeria
Marcel OkekeFebruary 6, 2023
Moody’s, one of the world’s leading rating agencies, a few days ago, in its latest report, downgraded Nigeria over its deteriorating
Nigeria: Hemmed in by hunger, food insecurity, et al
Marcel OkekeJanuary 30, 2023
The United Nations’ agency — Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) — a few days ago warned that some 25 million Nigerians stand the
Nigeria, developing nations in Davos 2023 fragmented world
Marcel OkekeJanuary 23, 2023
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe in 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been held in full
The economic lifeline for Nigeria in Diaspora remittances
Marcel OkekeJanuary 16, 2023
One of the ironies of the Nigerian economy is the fact that at a time that it should be reaping sustained windfalls from high oil
Nigeria’s 2023 budget: Buhari’s booby traps for next govt.?
Marcel OkekeJanuary 9, 2023
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, signed the Federal Republic of Nigeria Appropriation Bill 2023 into law with a
X-raying ugly trends of Nigeria’s economy in 2022
Marcel OkekeJanuary 2, 2023
By every dispassionate consideration, the Nigerian economy in 2022 experienced a mix of the bad, the ugly and the unexpected — all