Three weeks after the African Union decided on 30 January 2017 to readmit it following a 33-year absence, Morocco, which until then enjoyed the status of a sovereign Observer, announced on 24 February that it had applied to join the …

In his book titled “The Road to Serfdom” published in 1994, Frederick Hayek posits that ‘…money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man’. For it is ‘money which in modern society opens up an outstanding …

Dan Paget, University of Oxford

There were scarcely any hints of the tumultuous years that would follow the swearing-in of Dr John Pombe Magufuli on …

By Mercy Abang

Five years ago, Akin-Jide Ojo, then 23, completed his tertiary education at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, in Oyo State Nigeria. He proceeded to serve as a youth corps member in Taraba state living on …

Keeping the incumbent party in office may be difficult to bear, but hope that the opposition will bring change may also be misplaced.

The two contenders: Joseph Boakai (left) and George Weah (right).

Musa Lamine was sitting under his market …

Over the last few years, Nigeria has consistently passed and implemented budgets with huge deficits. The recurrent expenditure component of the national budget increased from N316bn in 2010 to N4.232tn in 2017 with no substantial development to show for both …

Since the middle of 2014, when the price of crude oil fell dramatically, Nigeria’s finances became challenged. This is not hard to explain: we’ve historically depended on crude oil for as much as 70 per cent of government revenues, and …