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When adult petulance becomes a campaign strategy, by Rotimi Fasan

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 […]
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Thoughts on Nigerian federalism and securitisation

Thoughts on Nigerian federalism and securitisation

Yet, there is a simple solution to this problem, a solution that aligns with Nigeria’s status as a federal state, if only the President, like others who mouth the claim that Nigeria is a federal state, would stop playing the ostrich.

Suddenly the president is talking

Suddenly the president is talking

Whether after this back-to-back in-person appearance in the media the president would continue his engagement with Nigerians. Or he would return, in hibernation, to his old ways

Joshua Dogonyaro’s coup speech and Muhammadu Buhari’s style

Joshua Dogonyaro’s coup speech and Muhammadu Buhari’s style

By Rotimi Fasan First, a disclaimer to potential blackmailers, opposition (read ‘wailers’) hunters, and would-be mind-readers who read meanings into and impute motives to other people’s words: Nigeria is best governed as a democratic state and the only civilised and acceptable way to change a non-performing government, for now, is through an election. The military […]

Nigeria the beautiful

Nigeria the beautiful

By Rotimi Fasan NIGERIA, the beautiful land richly blessed and endowed with human and material resources, will survive. But right now, the country is in the hands of her wicked children who are determined to take from her all the riches and goodness she possesses. Nigeria is like a nursing mother being violently suckled by […]

Nigerians must fight the anti-terrorism war as one

Nigerians must fight the anti-terrorism war as one

By Rotimi Fasan Between the time I am writing this on the morning of Saturday, February 27, and Wednesday, March 3, when you will be reading it, nobody knows how many more Nigerian school children, boys and girls, would have become additional victims of the marauding bands of terrorists that are overrunning many parts of […]