Why the NBA physician must first heal herself, by Rotimi Fasan
With the emergence of Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya (SAN) as the 33rd president of the Nigerian Bar Association, the controversies that had preceded this year’s election would seem to have subsided despite fears that the post-election period might be mired in litigation. Such fears have so far proven only partially founded, as some lawyers have allegedly headed for […]
Tinubu’s state visit to the UK, by Rotimi Fasan
Yesterday President Bola Tinubu began a two-day state visit to the United Kingdom. He was received with his wife, Oluremi, by King Charles III at the Windsor Castle. It’s been nearly four decades, precisely 37 years, since the last Nigerian leader made a state visit to our colonial lords. That was Ibrahim Babangida, a military dictator […]
President Tinubu should bring down the pump price of petrol, by Rotimi Fasan
When the war in the Gulf region started a couple of weeks ago, all Nigerians thought of was how many more dollars the country would be earning from each barrel of crude oil sold in the international market. Our lives are tied to the prices of oil, to which everything else we do is tied. If […]
‘We must oppose this government’, by Rotimi Fasan
With the current Nigerian politicians, each week, if not each day, comes with its own drama. After their comprehensive defeat in the Abuja municipal election and the bye-election in Rivers and Kano (and I say this without any sense of triumphalism- I had neither horse in the race nor do I care who won or lost […]
If or when Nigeria becomes a one-party state…, by Rotimi Fasan
If or when Nigeria becomes a one-party state, Nigerians should hold today’s opposition politicians and their civil society organisations enablers responsible. That is the concluding thought behind the title of this week’s talking point. That being said, Nigeria is not and does not look poised to become a one-party state as the opposition that continues to […]
El-Rufai wanted and begged to be arrested, by Rotimi Fasan
Well before he arrived Nigeria from Egypt, Nasir el-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna State and frontline promoter of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, the new political home of the major opposition figures that have sworn to unseat President Bola Tinubu, had announced that he would be arrested upon arrival in the country. More than a […]
