When adult petulance becomes a campaign strategy, by Rotimi Fasan
Considering the reaction of the main opposition parties’ leaders to the Independence Day speech of President Bola Tinubu, I think I’m beginning to see the lineaments of the campaign for the 2027 general election. The shape the campaigns would take is getting clear. This is why I’m returning once again to a theme I have […]
To those who murdered sleep in Owo
PERPETRATORS of the cowardly act of terror in Owo have murdered sleep and should henceforth sleep no more. Their strategy to not only violate that which we consider sacred but also strike fear in us will be met with courage and determination.
Money, not ideology, will drive the next elections
THE moment the two leading political parties in Nigeria rolled out a list of payments that aspirants to public office must make to use its platform, it was clear to Nigerians that neither ideology, character nor principles will determine the direction of the 2023 general elections.
As Nigeria cruises on autopilot
NIGERIA’s leadership problem, diagnosed decades ago, continues to manifest in different ways under the current All Progressives Congress-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari. O yes, I recognise we are all leaders in our different roles and do not downplay the place of good followers in the success and failure of their leaders.
The blood of Deborah cries for justice
IN 1989 the Iranian spiritual and revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeni, issued a fatwa that was to be executed by any Muslim anywhere in the world on the Indian-born British novelist, Salman Rushdie, following the publication of his book, The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims considered blasphemous.
The APC presidential nomination as a comedy jaunt
reality show that the All Progressives Congress, APC’s, presidential nomination process has been turned into, parcelled and handed over to every Aja and Eran, Sule and Ojo, able to afford the nomination and expression of interest forms fee, is now beyond sickening.
