“Once again, I would like to quote the late Gen. Sani Abacha: ‘Any insurgency that lasts more than two hours, a government official has a hand in it” – Ibrahim B. Babangida. “God just exposed the corruption in the railway ticketing (with the recent bandits' attack on the Abuja - Kaduna train)! No wonder they did not want to introduce online booking; when it was eventually introduced, it was always said to have been fully booked, especially the business class. Currently, they are having problems with the Chinese because the Chinese want to run the train and introduce real online…

The fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reminded us of the unforeseeable disruptions constantly confronting the global economy. We have been taught this lesson many times. No one could have predicted the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and few anticipated the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, or Donald Trump’s election, which resulted in the United States turning toward protectionism and nationalism. Even those who did anticipate these crises could not have said with any precision when they would occur. Each of these events has had enormous macroeconomic consequences. The pandemic called our attention to our seemingly robust economies’…