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  By Olu Fasan In the end, Nigeria’s obsequious Senate lived up to its reputation.  Toadyish as ever, it supinely rubber-stamped President B...

  By Olu Fasan The theory of political justice is based on two conceptions. The first is the ‘might-is-right’ school, which describes the il...

  By Olu Fasan Too often, one hears that it is not Nigeria that needs restructuring, but the minds of Nigerians and their leaders. Those who...

  By Olu Fasan There’s hardly any Nigerian who will disagree with the idea of acting in the national interest. Indeed, one would have to be ...

  By Olu Fasan However much the Presidency tried to explain away President Bola Tinubu’s last-minute cancellation of this year’s Independenc...

  By Olu Fasan  Pardon. An act so seemingly innocuous it should never be controversial. Yet, recently, a state pardon provoked public opprob...

  By Olu Fasan Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former military ruler and former civilian president, is a bundle of contradictions. One co...

  By Olu Fasan President Bola Tinubu cancelled yesterday’s Independence Anniversary parade at the last minute. No reason was given for the c...

By Olu Fasan Siminalayi Fubara returned as “governor” of Rivers State last week, six months after he was magisterially removed from office b...

  By Olu Fasan Earlier this week, President Bola Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that the president had cut short his two-week v...

By Olu Fasan The commonest riposte by opponents of the call for political restructuring in Nigeria is that Nigeria’s problem is not its poli...

  By Olu Fasan The past two weeks have been remarkable for sports women internationally. Women’s national sports teams were victorious in ma...

  By Olu Fasan Recently, on July 14, Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president, announced his latest defection from a political party. It was ...

  By Olu Fasan The title of this intervention is hedged with the word “theoretical”. That’s because the proposition that former President ...

  By Olu Fasan Exactly 32 years ago, the presidential election of June 12, 1993 was annulled by the military regime of General Ibrahim Baban...

  By Olu Fasan There are two views about Professor Pat Utomi’s decision to float what he called “Big Tent Coalition Shadow Government, BTCSG...

  By Olu Fasan Ostensibly, Nigeria is a multi-party democracy. But in reality, it is a one-party state. Those ululating over the recent ga...

  By Olu Fasan Most of those who have commented or are commenting on the Dele Farotimi - Afe Babalola saga have not read the book at the h...

  By Olu Fasan The strength of any country consists of its natural resources, human resources and capital assets, namely, the economic wea...

  By Olu Fasan Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, published the results of the General Household Survey Panel, which showed...