John Cardinal Onaiyekan spoke a bit too much, by Rotimi Fasan
The storm that has followed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria’s visit to President Bola Tinubu would certainly not have occurred had the Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, not taken to the airwaves in the form of a television interview he granted Arise News Prime Time anchor Charles Aniagolu to not only speak about […]
Peter Obi’s presidential run
By Rotimi Fasan IN the last few years since he left office as two-term governor of Anambra State, the Labour Party, LP, candidate in next year’s presidential election, Peter Gregory Obi, has postured as an advocate of youth leadership and political empowerment. This is in addition to calling for probity and fiscal frugality in governance. […]
Abuja’s priorities are beyond ASUU’s demands
By Rotimi Fasan THE Federal Government through the Central Bank last week released $265 million to airline companies operating in the country. These are mostly businesses owned by foreigners. The aviation industry like most other sectors of the economy has been going through a very rough patch in the last few months. There had been […]
Is Abuja doing enough to stop the theft of Nigeria’s crude oil?
By Rotimi Fasan WE will not allow a few criminals to have unfettered access to the nation’s crude oil supply, hence I have directed our security agencies to speedily bring to a halt the activities of these vandals in the Niger Delta.” The statement goes on to say:“There should be no hiding place for such […]
The feud in the PDP festers?
By Rotimi Fasan IT would look like Nyesom Wike is finally putting the pain and anger from the Peoples Democratic Party convention behind him, given the way he has been going about commissioning housing, road and other projects embarked upon by the Rivers State government under his watch. It has been something of a tradition […]
Will Northern politicians do to Tinubu what they did to Wike?
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been spending the last couple of few weeks fence-minding the relationship between their presidential flagbearer, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his closest rival and challenger at the convention that produced the presidential flagbearer, Nyesom Wike.
