Dr Chiwuike Uba
7 Jun
A Development Economist, Dr Chiwuike Uba, has criticised the proposed move by the Federal Government to review salary of workers, saying that it would only worsen Nigeria's current precarious fiscal situation.
2 Jan
Dr. Chiwuike Uba, a development Economist, has consulted for the World Bank and other international institutions on a wide range of perennial economic challenges among developing economies. He spoke with GEOFF IYATSE on critical economic issues that will shape Nigeria’s economy this year, focusing on the aggressive implementation of the cashless economy and 2023 election…
27 Dec 2022
Development and Economic expert, Dr. Chiwuike Uba, said, yesterday, that an evaluation of Nigeria’s economic performance in 2022 shows that policies of federal and state governments were poor, abysmal and retrogressive, stressing that current economic difficulty may stretch beyond 2023. Uba lamented that the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and State Inland Revenue Service (SIRS)…
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