In 1999 when Waziri Abubakar was sworn into office as Vice President and supposed head of the economic team, inflation rate was 6.9 percent but by 2000, that is a year after, it had risen to 17.8
percent.
The Independent Media and Policy Initiative IMPI has hailed the federal government for allocating more funds to capital expenditure than recurrent in the budget for the first time in the current democratic dispensation. It said in statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju that the decision to buck a 24- year trend with the 2024…
The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has described the rate with which the naira is appreciating as a reflection of the bouquet of positive policies introduced by the Nigerian authorities and the Central Bank. In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju,the policy think tank argued that the government and the CBN deserve…
The Independent Media and Policy Initiative IMPI is convinced that Nigeria will witness economic growth in 2024, on the basis of the GDP figure of the last quarter of 2023 It said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju that it expects the growth to be driven by the non oil sector and…
The earlier Nigeria begins to exploit OPL 245, the better in view of the country’s commitment to Net zero emissions based on a 2050 Global Energy Transition Plan timeline.
The Independent Media and Policy Initiative IMPI has said that there are enough proof to support the Federal government’s choice of HiTECH to construct the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway. In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju, the think tank group said its study of the situation showed that all the claims by former Vice…
The Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI) has described attempts by of some civil society groups to denigrate the outcome of the Edo State Gubernatorial election as a partisan hatchet job not backed by facts. In a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju, IMPI noted that claims made by the coalition were a carbon…