Economy
Nigeria needs economic overhaul to lift its people out of poverty
One of the fundamental causes of poverty includes structural problems due to wrong fiscal and economic policies.
Afolabi Faramade
December 2, 2022
One of the fundamental causes of poverty includes structural problems due to wrong fiscal and economic policies.
Agbero informal taxes suck drivers their profits and rarely make it to government’s coffers
The Liberalist Centre for Education is a Nigeria-based libertarian think tank promoting pro-freedom ideas for human flourishing.
The profit-driven orientation in privately-owned tertiary institutions makes studying there hyper-expensive. What if public universities fund themselves — and do not make profits?
Desperate politicians would choose to ignore the impossibility signal — no matter how obvious that is — and promise people free stuff to amass votes.
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has lamented the corruption in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the effect of the country’s subsidy.
Any dictionary that defines Nigeria would say a nation where more than half of its population lives below the poverty line, where inflation in food prices keeps soaring and the only booming business is either politics or kidnapping-for-ransom.
The world no doubt has learned—in a hard way—the effects of impeding free trade beyond borders.
Security of lives and properties is the primary responsibility of the government and failure to achieve this would make the country a fragile state; essentially
In a bid to implement measures to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus, the Nigerian government aims at vaccinating at least forty per cent of
The rate of insurgence and insecurity in Nigeria has become alarming, especially in recent time. Despite the years of self governance, insecurity is still Nigeria’s
First published in 1850, Frédéric Bastiat’s essay, “The Law”, captures the real picture of the present-day Nigerian situation.
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