Stakeholders in the private sector have identified regulatory risk as the biggest challenge of businesses in Nigeria and called for national strategy in policy formation. They said this at the Regulatory Conversations 4.0 with the theme `Foreign Exchange Restrictions on Food Imports and Implications for Regulating and Growing the Nigerian Economy” in Lagos. Speaking at […]
A professor of political economy, Prof. Pat Utomi, at the weekend called on young Nigerians to work together to end corruption, identify the nation’s problems and proffer lasting solutions in order to protect their future. Utomi, who made the call at an event tagged, “Discover Me,” and organised by the Simply Worship International Ministry, Benin, […]
An emerging Nigerian company, Integrated Produce City Ltd., is developing the first agricultural commodities exchange in Nigeria, in response to government’s efforts to diversify the economy, boost farming output and reduce reliance on oil. This was disclosed in Abuja by the Chief Executive of the Exchange, Prof. Pat Utomi. Bloomberg reports that The exchange, will […]
Some months ago, this writer read in one of the papers a suggestion by one of our highly revered economists, Prof. Pat Utomi, that Nigeria, rather than continue research and development work on the Nigerian car (where, he alleged, she doesn’t have comparative advantage) should concentrate on developing and supplying high quality rubber parts to […]