THE older you become the more you learn about your children especially if you were a strict parent and your children can now talk to you. In Nigeria, the father is generally the enforcer and the mother is the appeaser, the one with compassionate understanding.

Adunni should be laughing at us hereafter as we queue, sweat and shuffle at filling stations 57 years after independence in a country that is the sixth largest exporter of crude but cannot refine petroleum products for her domestic consumption

THE preceding year of 2017 witnessed a gradual recovery from a rather traumatic economic recession. At an annualised growth rate of 0.8% for the preceding, the economy had transited out of negative growth and can be presumed to be on the path of long-term sustained growth.

NIGERIANS were probably jolted by the Petroleum Minister, Ibe Kachikwu’s confirmation to a National Assembly Committee, last week (4/1/18), that the current landing cost of petrol is about N171/litre, i.e. well beyond the present N145/litre regulated pump price. Instructively,  the deregulated price of petrol is about $1.00(N305)/litre in nearby Ghana.

SEVERAL reasons have been adduced for the continuing delay in getting the 2018 budget passed. This is unfortunate because the 2018 budget has been the most professionally prepared document in more than thirty years – dating back to the Babangida regime. IBB had two former World Bank economists working for him at the same time – Dr Kalu Idika Kalu, KIK and Dr Okongwu.