What should the next stage of Nigeria’s successful economic reforms entail? I propose in this article a citizen and analyst’s blueprint on suggestions for deepening and extending our reform agenda. Read More
Are the reforms working 2
Last week, I laid out the context preceding May 29, 2023, and summarised the evolution of policy concerning Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sector and exchange rate management until the advent of President Tinubu. Read More
Are the reforms working? (1)
President Bola Tinubu embarked on fundamental economic and policy reforms immediately after he assumed office on May 29, 2023. The central pillars of those reforms were his immediate abolishment of the regime of fuel subsidies, which had been in place since the 1970s when Nigeria considered itself oil-rich and decided to offer generous subsidies Read More
The priests of Jeroboam
Solomon’s Kingdom was “outwardly rich, prosperous, and thriving…” (quoting from the Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary, p.649), “But the great building projects he undertook were accomplished by forced labour, high taxes, and other oppressive measures. Read More
On Broadway?
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
Strong Delusion
“And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie”.
There is a vast difference between faith and delusion, by literal or linguistic meaning and scriptural implication, even though the concepts may be scientifically proximate being both phenomenon that involve belief and occur in the minds and souls of men. Read More
Biblical Economics
How consistent or divergent is the Bible with conventional economics? Are there coherent theories around economics and finance in scripture that could be applied to modern society? I suggest that at least ten fundamental principles of “Biblical Economics” can be identified:- Read More
The Socio-Political Christ
The natural tendency of people is to isolate Jesus Christ as a spiritual phenomenon. However, he lived as a human being within a family and society, and in a polity in which there were rulers, governors, judges, the practice of politics and the exercise of political power. Read More
The Infiltration of the Church (3)
This week’s article is the only new one of my 5-part serial of spiritual recollections. All the others in the series were written a decade or so ago and I will conclude these particular recollections next week with another piece from the past. Read More
The infiltration of the Church (2)
Last Christmas, I wrote Part 1 of this article. I had reason to suspect that I would one day write the second part, but was not quite sure when. In that first part, I recounted the origins of the church after the resurrection and ascension of Christ, and the intense persecution and suffering that the faithful endured. Read More