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 […]
Tinubu’s policies are killing manufacturing; that’s nothing to brag about! By Olu Fasan
A braggart by nature, President Bola Tinubu is never shy of boasting about what he, self-referentially, believes are his achievements in managing Nigeria’s economy. Recently, he boasted that his administration had met its revenue target for 2025 sooner than expected in August and would no longer borrow domestically. Speaking to members of a group called The […]
RMAFC: Sadly, pay rises won’t stop public officers from looting in Nigeria, by Olu Fasan
The recent announcement by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, of its plan to review the remuneration packages for all political, public and judicial officers in Nigeria understandably and rightly provoked nationwide outrage. Although the commission is constitutionally empowered to determine the remunerations of officeholders, its decision to bump up the salaries and allowances […]
Restructuring: Is Nigeria’s problem the Constitution or its operators? By Olu Fasan
The commonest riposte by opponents of the call for political restructuring in Nigeria is that Nigeria’s problem is not its political system or its Constitution but the operators. I refer to this as the “culture versus structure” argument in my forthcoming book In The National Interest. Put simply, those blaming the operators of the Constitution, and […]
Okonjo-Iweala: The real truth about Tinubu’s economic reforms, by Olu Fasan
Last week, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, made a powerful intervention on President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms. After a courtesy visit to the president, Okonjo-Iweala told the media that the Tinubu administration “has to be given the credit for the stability of the economy,” saying that Tinubu’s economic reforms “have been […]
The Jonathan card: How PDP can defeat President Tinubu in 2027, by Olu Fasan
Sometimes, columnists fly a kite to test an idea or to provoke public discourse on an issue. Twice in recent months, I did so rather successfully. First, on July 3, I wrote a piece titled “2027: The theoretical case for Jonathan’s return to power” (Vanguard, July 3, 2025). I was probably the first columnist to float […]
