Vox Nigeria

A disparate mob yakking about the Nigerian economy

There’s a worrying trend in Nigeria. It’s the craze, the obsession of politicians with making millionaires. The governor of Imo state in…

Asade Tolu

Jun 5, 2017

To Lift The Nigerian Economy, We Need Manna From Heaven

The numbers have been coming in and they aren’t pretty GDP contracted for the first time in 12 years, foreign direct investments are down…

Derin Adebayo

May 22, 2016

Nathaniel Leff Explains Brazil (And Maybe Nigeria)

What a reclusive Jewish-American Professor had to say about Brazil’s economy and how it relates to Nigeria

Feyi Fawehinmi

Mar 21, 2016

What I Learned From Reading *Made In Africa*

What I Learned From Reading Made In Africa

Insights from an important policy book

Feyi Fawehinmi

Mar 13, 2016

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Tobi Lawson

Mar 11, 2016

What’s Behind Ethnic Conflicts In Lagos?

Another day, another sad story of violent ethnic conflict in Lagos. But this one feels all too familiar. I remember the violent clashes that erupted in the same Mile 12 market and its surrounding neighbourhoods in November 1999. This was where I spent most of…

How To Solve The Alhaji Problem

I know my people.

As I’ve written about Alhaji Putin, it won't be long before someone says I’m working for Lafarge or Alhaji’s enemies. So, to the extent that we agree there’s a problem with someone paying N12bn in taxes on N1trn profits, what’s…

Poverty Reduction In Nigeria: Welfare and Transfers Edition

I am sure by now it is no longer news that the federal government plans to spend $2.5billion of the 2016 budget on a social welfare program in its promised push to ameliorate poverty. These remedies are not new and include some…

Feyi Fawehinmi

Feb 15, 2016

I Know My People

The hand of culture is strong with Nigeria

Buy Nigerian To “Grow” The Naira

China: Made in China

India: Make in India

Nigeria: Buy Naija to save the Naira

If you can’t spot the fundamental difference in those three campaigns, this article should help.

A ‘Simple’ Plan To Reduce Poverty In Nigeria

Let us pretend for a few minutes that our government is not planning to spend a historically huge budget, to be financed mostly by debt, largely on maintaining a dysfunctional status quo. And that a confused central bank is not pursuing a destructive…

Nigerian Cashew Farmers Are Going Nuts

If nothing else, most Nigerians agree that Nigeria needs to diversify its economy. The problem is that no one ever really explains, in practical terms, what this diversification will look like if it is achieved. The difficult and even painful route to get to…