When adult petulance becomes a campaign strategy, by Rotimi Fasan
Considering the reaction of the main opposition parties’ leaders to the Independence Day speech of President Bola Tinubu, I think I’m beginning to see the lineaments of the campaign for the 2027 general election. The shape the campaigns would take is getting clear. This is why I’m returning once again to a theme I have […]
Take the war to terrorists, their sympathisers and sponsors, by Rotimi Fasan
In the latest footage released by the Ansaru faction of the Boko Haram terrorists that kidnapped 46 Nigerians in two communities in Ogbomoso Local Government Area of Oyo State, nearly all of them being schoolchildren and their teachers, one of the terrorists can be seen pointing the barrel of his weapon in the face of Mrs. […]
Again, South-West waits for terrorists to strike, by Rotimi Fasan
When Nigerians celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha next Friday, it will be exactly two weeks since the terrorists, now identified as a faction of Boko Haram, ended the peace of two communities in Ahoro-Esinele and Yawota, both in Oriire LGA in Ogbomoso, Oyo State. There these terror artists abducted about fifty Nigerians, mostly school pupils, […]
The terror messengers of the south-west, by Rotimi Fasan
Beyond being an act of defiance, the terrorist attack on Ahoro-Esinele and Yawota communities in the Orire LGA of Ogbomoso, was a clear message to the Yoruba that they are not immune to the murderous antics of the invaders that have turned different parts of the north and Middlebelt of Nigeria into killing fields. These […]
A decade after, by Rotimi Fasan
It is exactly twenty years ago this week that this column made its debut. To mark this milestone, I have reproduced the piece published here on 11th May, 2016, the tenth anniversary of the column. It reflects very much my thoughts on the second decade of the column. IT was ten years ago this week […]
These ‘structures of criminality’, by Rotimi Fasan
The African Democratic Party was at this time last year a nondescript organisation struggling to stay afloat as a political party. Ralph Nwosu, the founder of the party, had turned the chairmanship of the party into something of a life appointment in which he had served for seventeen years. By July he had turned the party, […]
