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 […]
