By Tanimu Yakubu The Poverty of Simplistic Fiscal Arguments: Those who speak glibly about deficits, debt and fiscal expansion often reveal not economic sophistication, but economic illiteracy disguised as moral outrage. Much of today’s opposition rhetoric confuses accounting identities with ideological slogans and mistakes macroeconomic intervention for recklessness. AContinue Reading
Statement by Tanimu In regards to publication timeline of quarterly budget implementation reports, the Budget Office of the Federation acknowledges public concerns regarding the publication timeline for the recent Quarterly Budget Implementation Reports and considers it important to provide clarification within the broader constitutional and fiscal context governing publicContinue Reading
— By Tanimu Yakubu This review critically examines the article by Abdulhaleem Ringim titled “The Windfall is Real, So is the Vulnerability.” In engaging this work, I seek not only to acknowledge its analytical strengths, but also to rigorously interrogate its macroeconomic assumptions, refine its fiscal logic, and situateContinue Reading
A Fiscal Rejoinder: — By Tanimu Yakubu Reform Is Not a Windfall Restoring Revenue Integrity, Correcting Price Distortions, and Rebuilding Nigeria’s Fiscal Capacity I. Introduction: The Illusion of Windfall Nigeria’s contemporary fiscal discourse has been captured by a convenient but fundamentally flawed proposition: that the removal of subsidy—particularly petrolContinue Reading
— By Tanimu Yakubu At a moment such as this, nations are tested—not only by the scale of their challenges, but by the clarity of their judgment. We have listened carefully to voices of concern, criticism, and urgency. In a democracy, such voices are not only welcome—they are necessary.Continue Reading
By Adeola Adelabu For years, Nigeria’s conversations around economic transformation have been long on ambition but short on execution. Increasingly, however, a more pragmatic pattern is emerging, one defined by structured partnerships, targeted investments, and a growing emphasis on delivery. Nowhere is this shift more visible than in theContinue Reading
By Tanimu Yakubu As I have argued consistently, the protracted banditry menace has two interrelated points to bear: First, it is analytically unsound to treat northern Nigeria’s insecurity—commonly labelled “banditry”—outside the framework of radical land and tenure reform. What is described as banditry is, in fact, a low-intensity, non-stateContinue Reading
By Tanimu Yakubu Introduction Public discourse in a serious republic must be governed by rigour, proportion, and institutional intelligence. It must not be surrendered to the seductions of outrage, nor to rhetorical constructions that, while emotionally arresting, collapse under the weight of economic scrutiny. In a countryContinue Reading
By Tanimu Yakubu If Nigeria’s manifest destiny is grounded in history, demography, and political economy, then its realization must necessarily pass through a moment of rupture—a decisive break from the inertia of the past. That moment, however contested, is now. The bold policy actions of the current administration underContinue Reading
A Response to Growing Narratives of Economic Breakdown By Tanimu Yakubu Nigeria is not collapsing. We are confronting reality. What Nigerians are experiencing today is painful but necessary. Years of accumulated distortions are being unwound. Distress is real—but distress is not disintegration. Collapsed states do not unify exchangeContinue Reading
