A fight to the finish in Osun, by Rotimi Fasan
In concluding my piece here two weeks ago on the Osun State governorship election that is scheduled to hold on Saturday this week, I had suggested that Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke had successfully skirted around the political landmine represented by the federal might that could have been deployed against him to threaten his chances in […]
The consensus against democracy
POLITICS is a process of social or political engineering that is all about horse-trading, give and take, disagreement and compromise.
Birds of the same feather and a unity list of corruption
IN the end, the convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the election of its officers into various positions of the party was hinged on a so-called Unity List that may yet turn out to be a document of infamy. The auguries that emanate from the horse-trading that went into the drawing up of that document and its eventual outcome should be disturbing to Nigerians who are discerning.
Nigeria is fighting corruption with corruption
By Rotimi Fasan WHEN last week I wrote in this space that Nigeria is in trouble, it was not so much an indictment of the Muhammadu Buhari-led government as some might think as it was a call for the government of the day and the rest of us Nigerians to own and acknowledge the crisis […]
Nigeria is in trouble
THAT a person is sitting on a keg of gun powder aptly describes the state of the Nigerian nation today as in any other time before a major implosion.
Abuja’s politics of petrol subsidy removal
By Rotimi Fasan The All Progressives Congress, APC-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari has kicked the can for the decision on petrol subsidy removal down the road by 18 months. Which is the same thing as saying that when it is again time to cross that dangerous bridge, the president, if not the party he […]
