Tope Fasua

I was offered a Doctoral Degree – on a platter – by one Commonwealth University of Belize, through London Graduate School. The letter, signed by one Prof David Iornem, spoke about having noticed my contributions to blah blah blah. (i will look for it and post if i haven’t since shredded it). All i had...

This is a great time to revisit Nigeria’s attempt at protecting its economy as recently underlined by the insistence on conserving foreign exchange resources. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had listed a number of goods it believes we should as a nation build capacity in, and for which it will not encourage the sale...

(Serious lessons for Nigeria’s economic managers). DATELINE SAN JUAN, JULY 2015. Just how did Puerto Rico get itself into such a fix? $72billion owed by a country of 3million people? The country’s population had even been decreasing in absolute terms. Over 400,000 of its citizens simply disappeared in the last decade. The future points to...

Nigeria’s biggest challenge is how to reduce poverty, and close some of the income gap. This challenge ranks with the need to reduce corruption. Now, there are many ways to reduce poverty, and one of those is the present stance of the government to give handouts of N5,000 to 25million or 10million poor Nigerians on...

There has been this unnecessary brouhaha surrounding the decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop selling cheap foreign exchange to importers of certain items, including (you won’t believe this), eggs, milk, furniture, rice, private jets, and of course, those who want to invest in Eurobonds and some other financial market instruments, and...

Thinking about the current story about the Police Service Commission in Nigeria, wherein the Chairman, a former Inspector General of Police, Senator Mike Okiro, is being accused, on the back of revelations by an insider, concerning different kinds of manipulation of their training vote, I think this is an opportune moment to tackle an issue...

Right now, we are on a downward spiral on both fronts – security and the economy. The trick to our economic renaissance does not lie in foreign direct investment (those will come if we have good security and our human capital is ready). Neither will we find the solution by racking up more debts. The...

I feel like a woman in a manic relationship. Used and abused. Traumatised, despoiled, raped and insulted. On a daily basis. I wish i could find another partner. But for me, Nigeria is the only option i have. Hence i trudge on, hoping one day I will see the back of the enemies with whom...

yes, there could be as much as N30trilion missing in this country. or embezzled already. you are talking of budget? pls investigate that budget. soludo knows what he is talking about. i didn’t take it serious but two days after his allegation, the FIRS declared it collected taxes worth N4.69trillion in 2014. Something pricked me,...