Broken politics: Deeply flawed primaries point to a messy 2027, by Olu Fasan
The morning foretells the day. Early signs can indicate how a day will unfold. In that sense, the recent presidential, gubernatorial and legislative primaries foretell a very messy general election next year. Over the past two weeks, the media have been awash with endless stories about deeply flawed party primaries. The primaries betray a political […]
Kukah’s vilification: Buhari is fighting the wrong ‘enemy’
By Olu Fasan PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is showing typical behavioural strains. Beleaguered leaders, who are out of touch with reality, usually find solace in the echo chambers of sycophancy and tend to see enemies in even well-meaning critics. That’s how to view the Presidency’s recent attacks on Bishop Matthew Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, […]
2020: Another year of utter lack of government effectiveness in Nigeria
TODAY, December 31, Nigeria joins the rest of the world to say good riddance to 2020, a year eviscerated by COVID-19. A recent TIME magazine cover says: “2020 Cancelled: The worst year ever”! Of course, 2020 is the year of Nigeria’s 60th independence anniversary, and of my 60th birthday. So, I won’t dismiss it as […]
Christmas message: Nigeria is failing, it needs a saviour
By Olu Fasan LAST year, I wrote a piece titled “A lesson of Christmas: Nigeria needs sacrificial leaders” (Vanguard, December 27, 2019). A year on, I’m returning to the same theme. For while Christmas brings hope as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, who came to save the world, thinking about Nigeria fills one […]
Presidency: Power rotation is inevitable until Nigeria is restructured
By Olu Fasan THERE is an intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the opposition to rotational presidency in Nigeria. The advocates of “meritocracy” conveniently forget that Nigeria is, politically, not a meritocratic country, and that zoning is a political imperative that speaks to this country’s deeply flawed political structure that creates recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts over […]
Nigeria’s latest recession: Blame bad policies, not just COVID-19
By Olu Fasan NIGERIA recently fell into recession for the second time in about five years. In 2016, this country’s economy contracted for the first time in 20 years. Less than five years later, Nigeria has now slumped back into another recession. The government blames the current recession on external shocks; specifically, on COVID-19 and […]
