Showing posts with label Olu Fasan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olu Fasan. Show all posts
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Muslim-Muslim Ticket: Is Tinubu Having Buyer’s Remorse?

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  By Olu Fasan Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s Marmite president, is by no means a religious bigot. He is a moderate, even liberal, Muslim, who...
Friday, February 6, 2026

Gale Of Defections: Why Should Anyone Vote In Nigerian Elections?

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  By Olu Fasan By the end of this year, or even earlier, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nigeria’s ruling party, may control 30 or more ...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Bola Tinubu’s Tax Laws: Tainted By Bad Faith, Integrity Deficit

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  By Olu Fasan Hardly anyone disagreed that Nigeria needed a new tax regime. The erstwhile tax rules were complex and cumbersome, their admi...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Tinubu’s Low-Grade Ambassadors: A Disservice To Nigeria!

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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...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Creating A New Nigeria Through The ‘Veil Of Ignorance’

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  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...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Structure Matters: Nigeria Needs The Right Political System To Succeed

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  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...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Nigeria: What It Really Means To Act In The National Interest

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  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 ...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Nigeria Doesn’t Need A Military Coup; It Needs Enlightened, Active Citizens

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  By Olu Fasan However much the Presidency tried to explain away President Bola Tinubu’s last-minute cancellation of this year’s Independenc...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Tinubu And The Politics, Morality Of Presidential Pardons

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  By Olu Fasan  Pardon. An act so seemingly innocuous it should never be controversial. Yet, recently, a state pardon provoked public opprob...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Obasanjo And The Haunting Ghost Of His Third Term Agenda

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  By Olu Fasan Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former military ruler and former civilian president, is a bundle of contradictions. One co...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Nigeria At 65: It’s Time To Break The Vicious Circle

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  By Olu Fasan President Bola Tinubu cancelled yesterday’s Independence Anniversary parade at the last minute. No reason was given for the c...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

The Return Of Fubara, Nigeria’s Most Diminished ‘Governor’

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By Olu Fasan Siminalayi Fubara returned as “governor” of Rivers State last week, six months after he was magisterially removed from office b...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Tinubu De-Markets Nigeria With His Penchant For Overseas Travels

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  By Olu Fasan Earlier this week, President Bola Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that the president had cut short his two-week v...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Restructuring: Is Nigeria’s Problem The Constitution Or Its Operators?

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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...
Friday, August 8, 2025

A tale Of Two Nations And Their Victorious Women’s Sports Teams

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  By Olu Fasan The past two weeks have been remarkable for sports women internationally. Women’s national sports teams were victorious in ma...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Serial Defections: How Would Atiku Be Remembered In Nigerian Politics?

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  By Olu Fasan Recently, on July 14, Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president, announced his latest defection from a political party. It was ...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

2027: The Theoretical Case For Jonathan’s Return To Power

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  By Olu Fasan The title of this intervention is hedged with the word “theoretical”. That’s because the proposition that former President ...
Friday, June 13, 2025

June 12: If Abiola Won, Is He Now A Posthumous President?

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  By Olu Fasan Exactly 32 years ago, the presidential election of June 12, 1993 was annulled by the military regime of General Ibrahim Baban...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

‘Shadow Government’: The Irrational Hounding Of Pat Utomi

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  By Olu Fasan There are two views about Professor Pat Utomi’s decision to float what he called “Big Tent Coalition Shadow Government, BTCSG...
Friday, May 16, 2025

One-Party State: Nigerian Political Parties Are Mere Special Purpose Vehicles

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  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...