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President Xi’s Diplomatic Lessons for Trump and Thucydides-Trap Theoretical Approach
By Prof Sheriff Ghali Ibrahim The world has seen a change in diplomatic presentation and engagement from Trump’s embarrasing moments with world leaders…
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Deficits, Debt and Economic Literacy: A Response to Nigeria’s Fiscal Critics
By Tanimu Yakubu The Poverty of Simplistic Fiscal Arguments: Those who speak glibly about deficits, debt and fiscal expansion often reveal not economic…
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EXPLAINER: FISCAL YEARS ARE DEFINED BY LAW, NOT THE CALENDAR
Statement by Tanimu In regards to publication timeline of quarterly budget implementation reports, the Budget Office of the Federation acknowledges public concerns regarding…
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Windfall Gain is Real, So is the Vulnerability: A Sharp Review of Ringim’s Notes
-- By Tanimu Yakubu This review critically examines the article by Abdulhaleem Ringim titled “The Windfall is Real, So is the Vulnerability.” In…
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Reform, Not Windfall: Restoring Revenue, Prices & Capacity
A Fiscal Rejoinder: -- By Tanimu Yakubu Reform Is Not a Windfall Restoring Revenue Integrity, Correcting Price Distortions, and Rebuilding Nigeria’s Fiscal Capacity…
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MESSGE TO MY COMPATRIOTS: A MOMENT OF TRUTH, A COURSE OF STABILITY
-- By Tanimu Yakubu At a moment such as this, nations are tested—not only by the scale of their challenges, but by the…
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From Ports to Food: How Partnership with China is Driving Nigeria’s Economic Transformation
By Adeola Adelabu For years, Nigeria’s conversations around economic transformation have been long on ambition but short on execution. Increasingly, however, a more…
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Reframing “Banditry” and the Imperative of Land Reform in Northern Nigeria
By Tanimu Yakubu As I have argued consistently, the protracted banditry menace has two interrelated points to bear: First, it is analytically unsound…
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Beyond Outrage: Infrastructure, National Integration, and the Discipline of Serious Economic Reasoning
By Tanimu Yakubu Introduction Public discourse in a serious republic must be governed by rigour, proportion, and institutional intelligence. It must…
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Nigeria and the Burden of Destiny: A Political Economy of Black Sovereignty (Revisited)
By Tanimu Yakubu If Nigeria’s manifest destiny is grounded in history, demography, and political economy, then its realization must necessarily pass through a…