Tope Fasua

(Here is the 100 days promise which we are now being told is a spurious, fraudulent document. I think it’s a beautiful document) Ehmm. If in case Baba is secretly considering humble me for ‘Coordinating Minister for the Economy’, let him put that on ice for now. Lol. There is a bigger duty for us...

Let it not be written in future history, that in this period of tectonic shifts in global economics, knowledge, information and sociology we had but little to add.   So I bought this external CD drive yesterday at a whopping N25,200 somewhere in Abuja. The CD drive on my Macbook Pro is messing up; rejecting...

This matter is touching me to the marrow right now. Imagine! So, these our phone companies and Internet Service Providers are trying to convince, abi na ‘confuse’ me, that i use 1GB (one gigabyte), daily! Bia, when did I start hearing of ‘Gigabyte’ sef? I just did a quick google search and it says the...

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...