By Abdiqani Hassan and Omar Mohammed A region of war-ravaged Somalia elected a new president on…
Category: Editorial
Nigeria should take its place in intra-African trade
Africa’s first organized trade fair ended recently in Cairo, Egypt with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)…
Nigeria’s bloated recurrent expenditure
There is a proven correlation between declining economic growth and sluggish investment in Africa, research…
Nigeria’s policy summersault and foreign direct investment
Last month, precisely on November 6, 2018, the United States Consul-General in Lagos, Mr. F. John…
State-sponsored rice smuggling
Three Cameroonians were last week arrested with 16 Nigerian accomplices, trying to smuggle in 834 bags…
Import documents falsification and the Nigerian economy
Director-General of the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), Osita Aboloma recently warned importers of goods and…
Maritime Development: The missing piece in President Buhari’s policy document
In campaigning for the 2019 Polls, President Muhammadu Buhari, recently launched his policy document dubbed Next…
It’s time to review salaries of Customs officers
On November 23, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) announced that its officials had intercepted and impounded…
Ensuring safety on our waterways
Newly appointed Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, recently had a…
Weighing the accounting implications of IMO 2020
Earlier this year, the Moore Stephens international member firm in Greece published ‘Owners’ Dilemma’, a thought…
Oil boom, the greedy few and crushing burden of subsidy
For the first time in two years, oil prices have risen steadily from $30 per barrel…
When Nigeria’s N9.3bn no longer secures its oil pipelines
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recently announced an alarming increase in the spate of pipeline…