Interviews

OLABODE ILESANMI

I think it’s a good step by President Buhari to reverse that opinion. When such monies are approved for individuals, they usually don’t get to them.

For me, it would have amounted to a wrong option for a good cause. He can invest this money on a meaningful project that will create e [...]

PAUL ALIBOH

It is no longer news that politicians make promises and fail to keep them. On the issue of President Buhari’s promises, it is not peculiar to his administration alone.

We are used to it. For me, the idea of giving unemployed youths N5,000 monthly stipend is actually ridiculous and [...]

N5,000 stipend: ’Buhari should not have promised’

Across the world, democratic countries adopt campaigns, manifestos and pre-election promises are part of electioneering. What is however appalling in Nigeria is the culture of denial or failure to implement what was either rightly or wrongfully envisaged. When President Muhammadu Buhari informed anyon [...]

NATHAN HAANYA

One thing that is very common in Nigeria is that when the price of things go up it is very difficult to come down.

When the exchange rate started increasing, the price of commodities increased. But now that the exchange rate has started going down yet the prices of commodi [...]

CHARLES OLILI

What I see in the fall of the naira is that the prices of things have increased in the sense that what was being sold for N100 is now sold for N150. As a result it has affected every business outfit.

Even the people importing are crying because of the inflation. So the buyers are crying; the se [...]

MERCY AKOH

The fall of the naira has greatly affected prices of commodities. From the manufacturers to the retailers, prices of goods have increased tremendously.

So when we buy goods expensively at wholesale price, to stay in business we tend to sell expensively at retail price.

Nigeria is a depen [...]

ADEJOH MESHACH

Most of the commodities we use in Nigeria are either imported or have one or two imported materials used in manufacturing it.

As such, the fall of the naira means increase in the value of the currency of the country which they are imported from.

If we [...]

OLA BADMUS

No matter the economy of a jungle, a lion will never feed on grass. The fall of naira is really disturbing as it is not beneficial to the economy.

But devaluation of the naira will change the mentality of Nigerians to strictly value what they have. It would however not be as easy as wha [...]