The ADC crisis, by Rotimi Fasan
The ongoing leadership crisis in the African Democratic Congress was a disaster everyone who is a Nigerian saw coming. Everyone except those bent on reaping where they had neither sown nor watered. Some members of the party in fact read the writing on the wall and gave the impression they were prepared for any eventuality. They […]
The North must own its problem, by Rotimi Fasan
The Northern Governors Forum, together with traditional rulers from the North, rose from a meeting convened in Kaduna on Monday this week with a major resolution: that a centralised police system is no longer workable for Nigeria in view of the mounting security challenges facing the country. The meeting followed a similar one held by […]
Nigeria’s problem comes from the North, by Rotimi Fasan
As I write this at exactly mid-day on Monday, it’s been hours since the abducted worshippers of the CAC Church in Eruku town of Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State were released by their Fulani captors. At this point, it is futile for anyone to continue to deny the evidence before us about the identity […]
Lt. Ahmed Yerima, this is not how to be a hero, by Rotimi Fasan
By dusk this past Sunday, it was all over the media that Lt. Ahmed Yerima, the same Naval officer that denied FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, access to a piece of estate owned by a retired Chief of Naval Staff, Zubairu Gambo, had escaped an assassination attempt. There was something unsettling about the report because of the […]
The genocide is not state-sanctioned but it exists, by Rotimi Fasan
With President Donald Trump designating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), and within 24 hours of that designation putting his so-called War Department on notice to invade the country should Abuja fail to execute his orders, can Nigerian Christians, as they were urged by Mr. Peter Obi, the LP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, […]
Coups and rumours of a coup, by Rotimi Fasan
There has been a remarkable shift in the political landscape of West Africa in the last few years. Soldiers are again making an odious entrance into the corridors of power. Silently but steadily, they are returning and the martial strains of their voices are getting louder. It’s becoming fashionable to speak of soldier-rulers in the same […]
A president’s show of mercy, by Rotimi Fasan
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his minders at this point don’t need to be told that whatever they do will always be placed under a magnifying glass to better assess where they may have strayed from the well-beaten path into the bush. They stir extreme reactions from both their supporters and detractors alike. It doesn’t look […]
How the Igbo should respond to the demolitions in Lagos, by Rotimi Fasan
In this concluding part of last week’s discussion, I continue from where I stopped by noting that the moment traders from other markets in Lagos were relocated to the Trade Fair Complex, from then was the vision that animated the establishment of the Complex corrupted. The influx of traders from different markets in Lagos signaled its […]
Where is the fair in the trade that goes on in the Trade Fair Complex? By Rotimi Fasan
Even before I have written the first word, I knew my intervention this week will require a follow-up before it can be concluded. While some might find some of my points controversial as we go on, my goal is to offer a solution that would be lasting and beneficial to us all as Nigerians about the […]
PENGASSAN and NUPENG as economic saboteurs, by Rotimi Fasan
Should it surprise Nigerians that in the lingering industrial dispute between Dangote Refinery and the oil unions, PENGASSAN and NUPENG, the NLC’s immediate response, its contribution to the matter, is to mobilise its members for a nationwide strike? Its call for a strike is based on the exaggerated influence of its tiny membership. The NLC and […]
Let those unhappy with Fubara fight their own battle, by Rotimi Fasan
Seventy-two hours after he returned to office following a six-month suspension, Siminalayi Fubara, the Governor of Rivers State, was with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a thank-you visit. Looking chastised and sobre, Mr. Fubara told reporters that he had made peace with his principal and was ready to move Rivers State forward. He has made it […]
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 […]
Is El-Rufai also among the prophets? Perhaps when he makes Obi president, by Rotimi Fasan
Since Nasir el-Rufai, the disaffected former governor of Kaduna State, lost his mojo after being played by his former friends in the All Progressives Congress, APC, he has assumed the status of a prophet. With all the petulance he can muster, he has promised to send President Bola Tinubu back to Lagos, away from the soft […]
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
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
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 […]
