What is Peter Obi looking for in Yelwata? By Rotimi Fasan
Now that he has been given a fresh invite by so-called elders of the community to visit after last week’s botched attempt, I think it is legitimate to ask what Peter Obi, the National Democratic Congress’s presidential candidate, is looking for in Yelwata, a somnolent town in Benue State, at a time when he should […]
Are the Abuja terror alerts a western conspiracy?
By Rotimi Fasan THE United States Embassy in Nigeria just over a week ago issued alerts of possible terrorist attacks on Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The first of the alerts was an advisory by the embassy warning Americans in Nigeria to be watchful and careful of their movements around the city. While this notice of an […]
The disgraceful partnership between Nigeria and Ethiopian Airlines
By Rotimi Fasan A NATION just as the peoples that constitute its being should have a healthy sense of self-worth. There is a kind of behaviour it must not be seen to engage in if it would not destroy the dignity of its people. Thus, even if it’s only for reasons of national pride, the […]
ASUU should for now mind its business
By Olu Fasan IT would be important that the Federal Government keep to its implementation of the agreement that led to the Academic Staff Union of Universities suspending its eight months long strike. It was the failure of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to stick to the terms of the agreements reached between 2020 and 2021 […]
Court of Appeal’s order: What’s next for ASUU?
By Rotimi Fasan THE decision of the Court of Appeal, CoA, ordering the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, back to work after an eight-month long strike has apparently wrong-footed the union, while simultaneously offering it a way out of the industrial bind into which it had been led by a duplicitous Federal Government that does […]
Akeredolu does have a duty to arm Amotekun
By Rotimi Fasan In the recently concluded three-part series on the candidacy of the Labour Party presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, I highlighted the problem posed by our unitary form of government that is disguised as federalism, as the main obstacle that a Nigerian president in the post-Muhammadu Buhari era must surmount to be successful. This form […]
