Nigeria’s Wildly Leaping Food Inflation, By Cheta Nwanze
If we continue on this trajectory and get another 1000 per cent increase over the next 20 years, in 2040 a 50 kilogramme bag of rice will cost ₦260,000. If you think it is impossible, think of the following prices from 1980: Nigeria Airways' flight from Lagos to Port Harcourt…
The Hefty Burden of Democracy, By Osmund Agbo
Part of the challenges could be that a particular democratic model may not be a one-size-fits-all after all. It could also mean that the American Jeffersonian example demands modifications in different cultural contexts. Or maybe now is the time to explore technocracy and even experiment with what Jason Brennan described…
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What Amaechi Should Tell China, By Ebere Onwudiwe
Our amiable Transportation minister should man up and look his Chinese friends straight in the eye and say this: For us to keep our tomorrow, for the future of our children born and unborn, for our national pride and honour, please keep your money and your wagons, your cabins, and…
Is Economic Growth The New Moloch?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Unfortunately, to have the decision as to what the greatest good is in this case, made by those who would benefit from it, is immoral. Same way that slavery is immoral, even when slave populations never exceeded the numbers of slave owners, and thus the benefit to the larger number…
World Health Organisation and the Exit of America’s Leadership, By Osmund Agbo
The truth is that America has never suffered this degree of humiliation before. The coronavirus has come to expose the worst notion of leadership there is, in the worst possible way. Trump’s America has now achieved an international pariah The United States has become the first casualty of a terribly…
Coronavirus: A Wily Enemy, By Bunmi Fatoye-Matory
How wily is this enemy? It attacks the very things that makes us human; our very breath, our ability to gather, our need to hold and touch each other, to laugh, sing, dance and celebrate together. It drives us from normal human activities and forces us to be imprisoned in…
Akinwumi Adesina: A Pawn In the Struggle of Two Elephants?, By Femi Kehinde
The AfDB is the key institution in the continent for trade and investment. For Steven Dowd, China is outpacing the in investing in Africa, and this must be curtailed by the United The President Donald Trump and the Treasury Secretary Steven Munchin are ready allies in this operation to demolish…
The Orphans of Coronavirus, By Owei Lakemfa
The new findings that point to earlier sources of COVID-19 may have rendered the court cases against China a nullity and those who hope to benefit from them may have become a distinct group of coronavirus orphans. The victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are not only those who contracted…
A Vaccine, a Seat Across From the IMF, and the Economy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Effective policy responses will matter. But an autarkic mindset, a staple of our policy pronouncements to date, will hurt. Either way, neither offers a useful answer to the question: “How long, therefore, before we are again across the table from the IMF?” However this question is answered, one fact is…
China, Africa and the World After COVID-19, By Kingsley Moghalu
Africa’s current relationship with China is not advancing our strategic interest. That interest is to become productive economies with a manufacturing industrial base. The China-Africa “special relationship” is preventing this interest from being realised. The coronavirus crisis has created a welcome opportunity for us to reassess the relationship between China…
