This piece documents the facts of the supply-side recovery in Nigeria in the last few years and identifies the triggers. It then discusses the challenges the new turn of events pose to policy makers, who are only just responding to the previous downturn. Data that have become available since...

This piece presents data published by the Central Bank of Nigeria on currency, bank deposits and other financial assets, to enable us evaluate Professor Charles Soludo's 'banking reform proposals'. We show that Soludo's proposals emanated from his misconceptions on cash,...

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...