Economy The Nigerian economy is in a peculiar mess. Bad macroeconomic and microeconomic policies, a blasé attitude to national inclusiveness and an expansive lack of confidence in the economy and local currency have all coalesced to drive the economy into the ‘valley of the shadow of death’. But there is a way out, if only the government is really desirous of doing the right things for the economy and the people. Nosa James-Igbinadolor looks at the recent diagnosis and prognoses of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council on the timorous economic situation in the country, and the way out of the economic Golgotha