What matters more is not the commitments in New York or in letters to international institutions, bu...

Graphics courtesyAccording to figures from World Bank, annual remittance flows to Africa...

Regulations that are sensible in the developed country context may not be applicable in the developi...

Presumption by government that people don’t know what’s best for them is the highest insult.

The term financial health refers to the state of a person’s or company’s finances. It means minimal...

The Renaissance Capital survey was conducted with 1,004 middle-class Nigerians, residing in the citi...

The title of Managing Director of/at World Bank, does not really mean anything in the scheme of thin...

Nothing is being done to address the issue of competitiveness which, together with large fiscal defi...

For each US Dollar that comes to the developing countries in terms of aid, more than seven US Dollar...

While the rest of sub-Saharan African countries have in recent times recorded between 5 – 11% growt...

The recent change of guard at the World Bank has brought to the fore the need for Africans to strive...

Economic prosperity talk in Kenya is all fiction because the poverty levels in the country remain a...

Nigerian bank debts are shunned by foreign investors because there is hardly worthy collateral on wh...

Thanks to those who have denied us markets abroad, we have focused on our regional markets

Crises oftentimes present opportunities for sweeping reforms. It is the right time for West Africa t...

The only problem is that we did not have our own capital and we were not allowed to develop our own...

I do not understand why some economists simply base their assumptions on what the IMF says. Any mean...

Better coordination of our budgetary and monetary policies is a matter of concern to all of us as th...

By standing up to the US over this trade war, China is checking the unbridled misuse of America’s po...

For those that celebrate Mr. Dangote, his village is as desolate as the Sahara except of course, tra...

While hard cash may be a requirement for traditional savings and investments, there are alternative...

The finalisation of the securitised lease for A2 farmers will make it easier for farmers to secure l...

Risk management has a direct impact on performance. A bank needs to be both profitable and well risk...

Africa can become part of the global solution to the economic challenges that the world faces today

There are heavy, dark clouds on the horizon – the lagged effects of slowdown in Europe, the uncertai...

The Euro crisis is serious and Africans should keep their guards up. Europe is in search of cash in...

Psychonomics: Understanding the Psychology behind Financial Behaviour is indeed a very topical subje...

Digital-based financial services not only facilitates access. It also fosters greater transparency t...

All financial sector players including SMEs must play their role in augmenting savings mobilization...

The crises of tomorrow are unlikely to be a repeat of the crises of yesterday. We must remain ever v...