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  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...

  By Olu Fasan Hardly anyone will disagree that Nigeria needs a fundamental tax reform. This, after all, is a country with one of the most...

  By Olu Fasan Shortly before the 2023 presidential election, I wrote a piece titled “ Yoruba ronu: A Tinubu presidency would tarnish your...

  By Olu Fasan There are two views of human behaviour. One is that people are primarily motivated by self-interest – what’s in it for me? ...

  By Olu Fasan The International Monetary Fund, IMF, and the World Bank have long struck a raw nationalistic nerve in Nigerians. Romantic ...

  By Olu Fasan Recently, Indermit Gill, the World Bank’s chief economist and senior vice-president for development economics, wrote an art...

  By Olu Fasan Every senator and every member of the House of Representatives who voted to create a regional ‘development’ commission in N...

  By Olu Fasan Ever since the presidency confirmed that Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s ineffectual president, would reshuffle his utterly incompet...

  By Olu Fasan Every nation that secured independence from its colonial rulers celebrates the freedom annually, as Nigeria did recently on...

  By Olu Fasan Last   week, I wrote about the dire economic consequences for Nigeria as a petrostate almost solely reliant on oil and gas ...

  By Olu Fasan The latest foreign trade data show that Nigeria recorded a trade balance of N6.52 trillion in the first quarter of this yea...

  By Olu Fasan It is the age-old chicken and egg question. Which comes first: the economy or politics? That’s the question at the heart of...

  By Olu Fasan Trust Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s self-assured yet bumbling president. He will claw at any piece of seemingly good news. Recentl...

  By Olu Fasan Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa, is a product of the Nigerian state. By deliberate policy choices, the state made ...

  By Olu Fasan Nigeria is one of the few countries where the young far outnumber the old. The average age in Nigeria is about 18.6 years, ...

  By Olu Fasan Recently, the Financial Times  interviewed me for a special report on Nigeria. The FT had interviewed me a few times befor...

  By Olu Fasan There is no shortage of talent in Nigeria. Yet, the country is so badly governed. Why? The answer is two-fold. First, the C...

  By Olu Fasan IT is official! The judiciary is the most corrupt institution in Nigeria; judges are the biggest takers of bribes in this c...