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Olu Fasan
Mixed verdict: International businesses adjudge Nigeria
Last week, I wrote about this year’s Global Trade Review (GTR) Africa conference, held in London. The conference…
AfCFTA, EPAs and Brexit: Africa needs holistic…
I was a key speaker at this year’s Global Trade Review (GTR) Africa Trade and Infrastructure Finance Conference…
Atiku is giving hostages to fortune in quest for power
Congratulations are in order! So, allow me, first, to congratulate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for securing the…
2019: The world is warming up for Nigeria’s next…
The 2015 general election was conducted under the watchful eye of the world. It was such a high stakes election…
Nigeria wallows in poverty amidst rising global…
The 24th Nigerian Economic Summit starts this week with the theme “Poverty to prosperity: making governance and…
Tinubu’s feudalisation of Lagos state politics
Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has been thrown under the bus. He will not serve a second term in office…
Nigeria is a one-party state. The party is the political…
The party conference season has just ended in Britain. This is the period of the year when the UK’s major political…
Free trade is bad if not fair. Nigeria must tackle…
Last week, I responded to the call by the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN) for inputs into its…
Trade policy for Nigeria? Focus on exports, not imports
Recently, the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN) launched a “nation-wide” call for inputs into what it…
Restructuring Nigeria: Osinbajo is wrong again!
In 2016, I wrote a piece titled “Restructuring Nigeria: Osinbajo has gone native” (BusinessDay, 25 July 2016). In…
Rule of law: Buhari goofed, but is Nigeria rule-based?
Motives matter. And, so, when President Buhari said recently at the national conference of the Nigerian Bar…
Osinbajo: The acceptable face of a lame government
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo once described the vice president as a “spare tyre”. The Americans call theirs a…