OPINION/EDITORIAL

CBN Reports Current Account Surplus of $1.10 Billion in Q4 2018

March 12, 2019/CBN Overview  The provisional Balance of Payments (BOP) estimates for Q4 2018 showed a significant improvement in the BOP outcome as the overall balance of payments recorded a surplus of US$2.80 million compared to a huge deficit of US$4,542.08 million and a surplus of US$6,180.40 million recorded in […]

Oil Prices Inch Higher On Venezuelan Crude Crisis

March 12, 2019/OilPrice.com –    The U.S. saw electricity consumption rise to an all-time high in 2018 at 4,178 million megawatt hours, according to the EIA. That was a 4 percent increase from the year before. –    The previous peak was in 2007, so it took until last year to bring […]

Cameroon Continues it’s Troubling Descent

Political leaders in the U.S. have begun to speak up, while certain sectors of the U.S. government have also taken actions to hold Cameroonian leaders accountable March 12, 2019/Vanguard Africa Despite somewhat slipping from global headlines in recent weeks, Cameroon has nonetheless maintained its death spiral. The root cause of […]