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By Olu Fasan The widely acclaimed #EndSARS protests, led by Nigerian youths, shocked the country, and caught the world’s attention. The protests were triggered by a viral video allegedly showing an officer of the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, killing a man in Delta State. The #EndSARS demonstrations mirrored the #BlackLivesMatter protests, which also started
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By Olu Fasan President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech on Nigeria’s 60th independence anniversary two weeks ago was striking for its utter vacuity. The speech was full of sanctimonious preachiness and platitudes but totally bereft of substance. For such an “epochal event”, it was a missed opportunity! The recurring theme was “togetherness”, which chimed with the slogan
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By Olu Fasan Last week, government rolled out the drums to celebrate Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day. But across the South, separatist groupswere beatingthe drumsof secession. In the South West, Yoruba One Voice, YOV, a group calling for “Oduduwa Republic”, held rallies across Yorubaland and hoisted a flag of the “republic” in some towns. In the
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By Olu Fasan TODAY, Nigeria is 60 years old as an independent state. Congratulations are in order! But truth be told, there is little to celebrate! Over the past 60 years, Nigeria has had a tortured history, always teetering on the edge of a precipice. Today, it verges on state failure. Even scarier, without radical
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By Olu Fasan RECENTLY, after reading, for the umpteenth time, about President Muhammadu Buhari’s “orders” to the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, I tweeted: “All this @MBuhari ‘asks’, ‘orders’, ‘directs’, ‘instructs’ the @cenbank to do this or that is doing enormous damage to the credibility of #Nigeria’s central bank.” Hundreds of people liked and retweeted
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By Olu Fasan PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari came into office in 2015 vowing to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production. His mantra was: “We will grow what we eat and eat what we grow.” Five years on, Nigeria faces a food crisis. But rather than take responsibility for the failure, he is playing the blame game!
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By Olu Fasan THE new Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA 2020, signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 7 provoked mixed reactions. Most companies hailed it as a great charter for the ease of doing business. But to most voluntary and religious groups, it is an oppressive tool to constrain religious and
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By Olu Fasan PROFESSOR Ibrahim Gambari is settling down well in his new role as President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff. Since he started the job in May, his presence has been strongly felt in the Presidency and his imprimatur has been on the governing process. That’s how it should be! In a piece in
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By Olu Fasan Obadiah Mailafia, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, recently stirred up a hornet’s nest when he told a radio station that “one of the northern governors is the commander of Boko Haram”. As quick as a flash, the Department of State Services, DSS, invited him for “questioning”, and the Nigerian
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Of course, in the first subjugation, Nigeria had no choice beyond putting up feeble resistance. But in what looks like the second, it’s a willing instrument. Truth is, Nigeria is a willing pawn in China’s debt-trap diplomacy, and has deliberately put itself in China’s economic, political and ideological spheres of influence.
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