The Structure of Nigeria’s Economy: A Modern Approach

About the Author(s)

Dr Ikechukwu Kelikume (1966-2024) led sessions in the Microeconomic and macroeconomic Environment of Business and Agribusiness at Lagos Business School. He obtained his doctoral degree in Economics from the Swiss Management Center (SMC University, Switzerland). An economist with over 22 years of teaching experience in training and facilitating learning across three universities -covenant University, University of Benin, and Lagos Business School. In addition to teaching, he engaged in consulting activities. His consulting activities included assignments for the World Bank, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA), Center for Management and Development (CMD) and the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. He was actively engaged in consulting in the oil and Gas sector with Techno Oil, Total Nigeria, and Exxon Mobil. In addition, he was chair of the Oil Palm committee constituted by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to see the optimal functioning of privatized state-owned oil Enterprises.

Dr Stanley Nwani is a Senior Lecturer at Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos where he teaches statistical Methods, Mathematical Analysis and Research Methodology. Dr Nwani holds a B. SC degree in economics and statistics (UNIBEN), MSc & PhD in Economics from the Lagos State University. He was the Head of Human Resources, at GreenTech Industries Nig. Ltd and a trained researcher at the Global School of Empirical Research Methods, St Gallen University, Switzerland. He is a UNESCO policy expert on social, Economic Summit Group(NESG), a full member of the Nigerian Economic Society(NES) and a reviewer for several reputable international and national journals such as Management of Environmental Quality, International Journal of Social Economics, Cogent Economics and Finance and The Nigerian Journal of Economic and social studies. He can be reached at snwani@pau.edu.ng

Dr Azuka Elvis Ozegbe holds a PhD in Economics from Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. He is presently a faculty Member in the Department of Economics at the Prestigious Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria. He teaches Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Sector Economics, Development Theory and Planning, History of Economic Thought, and the structures of Nigeria’s Economy. He has written extensively on governance, economic development, international economics, and other social and management sciences aspects. Dr Ozegbe is a reviewer of several High-ranking international and national journals such as Cogent Economics and Finance, International Journal of Social Economics, and Christopher UNIVERSITY Journal of Management and Social Sciences. Dr. Ozegbe is a full member of the Nigeria Economic Society (NES), MEMBER Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM) and the Africa of Management (AFAM). He can be reached at eozegbe@pau.edu.ng.