The economic events of 2016 taught us a lot of hard lessons about Nigeria's interface with the global economy, and the links with domestic growth, stability and policy responses. This paper attempts to distill some of the lessons and clarify the outlook.Weak commodity prices brought Nigeria's...

Since July 2014, after a remarkably favourable half year in which oil price reached a peak of US$115 per barrel and equity market capitalization touched an historic peak of N14 trillion, the Nigerian economy has been buffeted by the twin shocks of global commodity price slump and global...

2015 is likely to be a year of contrasts in which a difficult and uncertain start will most probably give way to a promising end, as renewed post-election economic reform efforts to address fiscal, structural, and financial challenges highlighted by low oil price and weak capital inflows on the...

Nigeria faces a paradox of having Africa's biggest economy but not Africa's biggest government revenue. While Nigerian economy is about 155.4 percent of South Africa's economy, the revenue generated by Nigerian government is only about 79.5 percent of the revenue generated by South African...

This study sets out to model non-bank public's desired holdings of five different measures of money in the Nigerian economy. These are currency outside banks (COB), demand deposits (DD), narrow money (M1), quasi money (QM), and broad money (M2).The study addresses many of the pitfalls involved...