Olu Fasan

Olu Fasan

If Nigeria truly wants to industrialise, it must be export-oriented

BusinessDay Aug 15, 2016

  The first and certainly most important step in any policy formulation is problem definition. Policies are solutions to problems,...

Olu Fasan

Buhari shares Adam Smith’s cynicism about business, but not his solution

BusinessDay Aug 08, 2016

  For those who criticised President Muhammadu Buhari’s government for not having an economic team, the president recently had an...

Olu Fasan

Nigeria’s government by memo and gramophone, but little action

BusinessDay Aug 01, 2016

Last week, an interesting opinion poll revealed the trajectory of President Muhammadu Buhari’s popularity with the Nigerian people. The poll,...

Olu Fasan

Restructuring Nigeria: Osinbajo has gone native

BusinessDay Jul 25, 2016

  The recent intervention by the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, on the vexed issue of the political restructuring of Nigeria...

Olu Fasan

Brexit will weaken Africa’s voice at the European table

BusinessDay Jul 11, 2016

I wrote last week that the world has talked about nothing else but Britain’s decision, in the June 23 referendum,...

Olu Fasan

Seismic shifts as Britain ends fractious relations with Europe

BusinessDay Jul 04, 2016

  The world has talked about nothing else since Britain voted in a referendum on 23 June to leave the...