Tope Kolade Fasua

Passionate about social justice & Integrity. Try to do my best at all points in time. Open-minded to learn more and more always.Economist and Public Policy wonk

[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

@DrJoeAbah this is crazy! wow

[William Samoei Ruto, PhD @WilliamsRuto]

The industrial experience

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

The supremely gifted and talented Caron Wheeler who sang Soul2Soul’s ‘Back to Life” and ‘Keep on Moving’ is proof that talent is never enough. The range of that woman’s voice gives me chills every time but she never became a global superstar. Your talent must add hard graft and God’s mercies for you to be successful.

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

If you got a First or Second Class Upper and see a funded opportunity for a Master's at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard or MIT, apply o. But do it with diligence. Do some research about people who have been accepted and what else they offered beyond academics.

Don’t forget that working in your mum’s shop is useful experience, as is volunteering for a community-based organisation. Your only claim to fame cannot be “I made a First.” So, you made a First. What now happened? First Class na water in these schools. You need to show that there is something special about you. What is it?

Treat the application like a professional exam. Give it everything you can and turn every little attribute you have, every adversity you have survived, into a plus.

What’s the worst that could happen? Enh?

I am Ezemmuo. I know things.

[Akinwumi @Big_marvis]

Government cannot permanently legislate prosperity.

Government can increase the legal minimum wage.

But government cannot simply decree that businesses should become more productive, that food should become cheaper, or that workers should automatically become richer.

Sustainable wage growth ultimately depends on a growing economy, higher productivity, stronger businesses and more goods and services being produced.

You can legislate a wage floor. You cannot legislate unlimited purchasing power.

[AKIN W ADEDOTUN @AkinWAdedotun]

People should worry less about all these low production thing.....Who is keeping the data...Do they know how many factories has opened in the Sagamu Interchange, Lagos-Ibadan Express in the last 3 years.... Anyone travelling around these axis will testify to increase volume of Truck movements, factory workers all over the place...Same goes for Quarries and Farms in Ogun state in general..What of Fashola and Oke Ogun with do many processing factories ...Small farms by foreigner are there too...I know how many people around me are employed or engaged in something in the last 3 years and some are even changing Jobs....@topefasua did something on New factories and employment Numbers recently....If @NBS_Nigeria can provide the number of factories opened in Ogun state and employed workers in the last 3 years, THEN I WILL START TO BELIEVE THEM...THINGS are Improving generally as things are not limited to Ogun, I am talking of Lekki and Free zone axis ooo🤔☹️

[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

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[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

@DrJoeAbah same here...except i'm headlining somewhere

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

The decisions we have taken to reposition Nigeria’s oil and gas sector are beginning to bear fruit.

Since assuming office, I have signed a series of Presidential Directives and Executive Orders to make investment in Nigeria more competitive, reduce the cost and time required to develop projects, provide greater certainty to investors and ensure that our natural resources deliver greater value to our people.

One of those reforms introduced specific incentives to unlock onshore and shallow-water gas projects that had remained undeveloped for years.

Today, we are seeing the result.

AMNI International and TotalEnergies have taken an $800 million Final Investment Decision to develop the Ima Gas Field, discovered in 1973 and left underground for more than fifty years.

For Nigerians, this means work for our engineers, technicians and contractors. It means opportunities for Nigerian businesses, jobs and economic activity in our host communities, and more export earnings for our country.

AMNI, a Nigerian company, holds the majority interest in the project. Around 60% of the development workforce is expected to come from the host communities.

Ima is expected to produce about 350 million cubic feet of gas every day at peak and supply about one-third of the gas required for the expansion of Nigeria LNG.

This is what our reforms are intended to achieve, to move Nigeria’s resources from potential to production and translate them into jobs, incomes and opportunity for our people.

We have more to unlock.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President

[TBO Consulting @consulting_tbo]

Last week, we hosted our inaugural Nigeria MDA & Financial Sector Summit.

One question from our conversation with Dr Tope Fasua @topefasua: What would it take for AI to improve Nigeria’s productivity?

Here are some insights from the Summit.

#tbo #nigeriamda #ai

[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

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[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

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[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

I am very pleased by this news. Somepeople in this country have become very rich by corruptly colluding with government officials to impose liabilities on the government and then sue the government or force it into arbitration to pay huge sums in dollars.

Sometimes, they even collude with government lawyers to come to court and accept liability in exchange for a share of the proceeds. To me, these are some of the most despicable Nigerians alive.

Congratulations to Nigeria and well done to Presidents Obasanjo, Buhari and Tinubu.

[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

@AJShaguy @woye1 @NBS_Nigeria @atiku @PeterObi All u these ugly devil-lookalikes are never happy when the indices pan out right for Nigeria. Ok, Chinese people are crashing prices everywhere. That is a factor. Nigeria is getting better in spite of your bile

[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

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[TheCable @thecableng]

TOPE FASUA: "Nigeria’s finance broke a long time ago. The question was who will try and start fixing it. I recall in the Obasanjo era, I was a banker and also owned a small business which my wife handled for us. I recall that every six months, President Obasanjo will increase fuel prices and Labour Unions under Adams Oshiomhole will go into a fit, shutting down the economy. It usually took at least two months for the business to recover itself, as customers felt lethargic and negative about the economy. And just when they start to build confidence and return, another fuel price increase will send us back to the red. It was tortuous but we managed to survive. The Jonathan era was not much better. A search on AI concludes about the Jonathan government that “The typical Nigerian small business under Jonathan faced a “high-cost, low-productivity trap”: expensive and unreliable power, expensive credit, weak infrastructure, multiple regulatory and tax burdens, insecurity, informal competition and limited managerial capacity made it difficult to survive, formalise, scale and become internationally competitive”. I don’t blame Nigerians. Humans forget the past easily."

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[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

@DrJoeAbah i have an answer for you here, Sir. like i was reading your mind. that sharing formula masks too much

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[Tope Kolade Fasua @topefasua]

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[Sunday Dare,CON, Ph.D @SundayDareSD]

London: Imperial College, Thursday September 10th. I was the Key Note Speaker at the 2026 Investors Connect. I delivered a paper that examined : Building for Global Scale : the venture architecture that attracts institutions and funds.
I present some key quotes and assertions from my presentation, nuggets that many might find useful. Both the Government and the Private Investor or Start Up :

1. “Scale is not simply a function of ambition; it is a function of architecture.”
2. “A good idea is not necessarily a scalable idea.”
3. “Early success is not scale, and a successful pilot is not the same thing as impact at scale.”
4. “Capital is indispensable to growth, but capital does not automatically create scalability. It accelerates what has already been designed and built to scale.”
5. “Reach is not scale. What matters is whether that reach can be sustained, expanded and converted into trust, adoption and value.”
6. “A good product is not enough, and the existence of a large potential market is not enough either.”
7. “The real question is not simply whether the market exists, but whether you have built an enterprise capable of serving that market at scale.”
8. “Scale does not always require building everything yourself. Sometimes it comes from bringing together capabilities, networks and strengths that already exist separately.”
9. “The critical question may not simply be, ‘What more must I build?’ but also, ‘Who already has the market access, infrastructure, knowledge or capability that can help us scale faster?’”
10. “An idea may begin with an individual, but if it is to achieve genuine scale, it must eventually become bigger than its originator.”
11. “Demand does not produce scale by itself. There must be an architecture capable of converting demand into access, transactions and sustained growth.”
12. “Government does not always have to be the entity doing the scaling. Sometimes its most consequential role is to create the conditions in which others can scale.”
13. “Regulatory risk is investment risk.”
14. “Global scale is not the ability to reproduce exactly the same model everywhere. It is the ability to preserve what makes your model valuable while adapting sufficiently to the economics, behaviour and institutions of each market.”
15. “Population by itself is not an economic advantage. Demography becomes an advantage when people are equipped with the skills, opportunities and productive capacity to create value.”
16. “The people architecture must be as scalable as the technology architecture.”
17. “Institutional capital ultimately wants to invest in an institution, not permanent dependence on an individual.”
18. “Activity is not impact, and pilot success is not population-level success.”
19. “There is a fundamental difference between budgeting for an outcome and financing its delivery.”
20. “The real test of an idea is not simply whether it works, but whether the architecture exists for it to work repeatedly, for many more people, under different market conditions, under greater pressure and complexity, and long after the individuals who first conceived it have moved on.”

[Kobi @UTDKobi]

He’s flawless on the ball man… such a baller.