Politics

A coin dropped the moment I saw that picture posted by Senator Ben Bruce, where he posed with the old, retired Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, and boasted about how the Atiku team was contacting the man to come and assist them in turning this our Nigerian economy around. It was a major...

It was indeed a sad day for Nigeria when the debate group gave effect to its illegality and impunity, defied the public’s outcry and demonstrations, and held the vice presidential debate, promoting five parties at the expense of at least 70. The injustice must be redressed and a number of neglected candidates promise to be...

John Momoh is a likable guy but he has made a grievous mistake with this one and should retreat/backtrack. Channels is being embarrassed here and it can get worse. No empire is big enough such as cannot crumble… sometimes over the most innocuous things. my people in ANRP dont know how to do Aluta. we...

In what would clearly be the first salvo towards rigging the 2019 elections, the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG), leveraging on the auspices of the publicly-funded Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), and using the platform of Channels Television, chose – with much impunity – to shrink the political space by announcing that it shall be...

Nigeria is certainly not the most diverse country in the world, neither is it the most populated. By toeing the line of disintegration and talking it down, we are only confirming our own incompetence and inability to think long-term or self-govern. We are justifying racists who say we aren’t. ABUJA–AHEAD of 2019 general elections, the...

I just received a text requesting for comment from one newspaper correspondent. He wrote about ‘rumours’ that the government is compelling all MDA s – Ministries, Departments and Agencies to reduce their budgets for 2019 and wanted to know the implications. In the news is also the fact that government has taken from the budget...

Nigeria’s economy hangs on a fiscal cliff, ready to tip over into eternity. The society is also on the brink like never before. Kaduna is back at war and in curfew. Jos is not easy to contemplate. Shi’ites rocked Abuja this Saturday.  The entire country is tinderbox as a result of politics. The ruling party...

So the other day my friend Samson Itodo and a few of his friends went and got the Not-Too-Young-To-Rule Bill passed. Passing a bill is an arduous task. You need all the links and connections in the world to get things fast tracked. But they got it done. Kudos to the team.   Then it occurred to...

Tope Kolade Fasua is the presidential candidate of the Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP). He spoke with PREMIUM TIMES’ Festus Owete and Azeezat Adedigba on his chances at the 2019 polls. He also spoke on what he would do to restore Nigeria to the path of progress and prosperity, if elected and other sundry issues....

The Man Tope Fasua  Tope Fasua is an Economist by training, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and a Member of the Institute of Directors (MIoD).  He also possesses a Masters Degree with Distinction, in Financial Markets and Derivatives from London Metropolitan University. He worked in the Nigerian Banking Industry...