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The fight to save Nigeria, by Rotimi Fasan

The fight to save Nigeria, by Rotimi Fasan

Last week ended on another note of triumph for the terrorists who are sworn to make life unlivable for Nigerians while the rest of the country mourns. We all came to the sad realization of the death in captivity of General Rabe Abubakar. He had been abducted with his wife about four weeks ago by terrorists […]
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For Fubara and Natasha, it may be a brain reset to factory setting, by Rotimi Fasan

For Fubara and Natasha, it may be a brain reset to factory setting, by Rotimi Fasan

Siminalayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State, is poised to return to office tomorrow after the six months of imposed emergency rule by President Bola Tinubu lapses. Mr. Fubara has undergone the human equivalent of what technology experts call device reset. In the case of the governor, he seems to have experienced a brain reset. He […]

Simon Ekpa, the ‘content creator’, gets his comeuppance, by Rotimi Fasan

Simon Ekpa, the ‘content creator’, gets his comeuppance, by Rotimi Fasan

Simon Ekpa, the so-called Prime Minister of the Biafran Government in Exile, the internet-based secessionist network of pretend freedom fighters who claim/ed to be fighting for the right of the Igbo to self-determination, was, yesterday, sentenced to six years in prison for terrorist activities and tax law violation by a district court in Finland where he […]

Obasanjo’s ‘court of corruption’, the NBA and the Chichidodo, by Rotimi Fasan

Obasanjo’s ‘court of corruption’, the NBA and the Chichidodo, by Rotimi Fasan

Is it not interesting that the media should be giving Nigerians excerpts from the latest book of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, in the same week that the Afam Osigwe-led Nigerian Bar Association is holding its Annual General Conference in Enugu? President Obasanjo is by far Nigeria’s most published former ruler, civilian or military. Even when he […]

Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian economy and our politicians, by Rotimi Fasan

Okonjo-Iweala, the Nigerian economy and our politicians, by Rotimi Fasan

Nigerians may be struggling to survive at this moment as they have been in the last two and half years since President Bola Tinubu unmoored the economy from the burden of a criminal petrol subsidy regime that benefitted none of the poor Nigerians they were meant for. He abolished a dual foreign exchange system that left […]