Last week it was reported that $500 million Abacha Loot returned to Nigeria had not only been re-looted, but had actually been sent back abroad. It was as if the country, that is so desperate for funding, simply spat the money back out. The same week, it was reported that N100 billion released by the…

If you can find the time this year, I ask you to do something - detach yourself from Nigerian politics for a while and just observe all that is going on from a safe distance.

At the beginning of the year, his enemies gathered in the North and the South ready to devour him. Today, every single one of them has been delivered into his hand and he has crushed them to fine powder and sawdust.

Criticising the Nigerian government, as I do very often, is an easy job - all you have to do is wake up in the morning and the government is guaranteed...

“Has Buhari addressed the alarming rate at which Nigeria is losing young professionals to Canada?” A week ago, I tweeted that, half seriously and half in jest.

Question 1 – Let’s say your budget estimated you to earn N4trn from non-oil revenue in 2017 but in reality, you only managed to collect just over N2trn, how much should you budget to collect in 2018? The correct answer is N4.2trn.

The Nigerian government is completely out of control. A recent report showed that while the government planned to spend N1.08trn on salaries in the first 6 months of this year, it somehow managed to spend N1.4trn.

The most incredible thing about the ongoing NNPC drama between the Group Managing Director (GMD) and the Minister of State is that, for once, money is not actually missing.

The story that Alhajis Mohammed Tunga and Garba Kamba of Kebbi state conspired to divert N664 million from ‘Imam training’ to their own pockets caused me to ponder anew on Nigeria.

Naturally, the impact of the devaluation was felt in different ways in different parts of the agriculture value chain, but one can summarise by saying it made everything more expensive.

I asked people on Facebook and Twitter to complete a short survey. It was to be filled in anonymously as I wanted people to be as relaxed and honest as possible.

The Federal Government came up with a ‘modified’ version of the Pioneer Status Incentive scheme a couple of weeks ago. To quickly summarise – the pioneer status allows companies...