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 […]
Violence as symptom and effect of leadership failure
What we must not allow ourselves to forget is that the undisputable failure of national leadership is at once the cause, symptom and effect of the violence that is ripping Nigeria apart
Sagay’s gobbledygook
If Sagay expects that the prosecuting agencies should win all corruption cases in court, then he is mistaken
The Igbonla kidnap saga: killing the future softly
THE Igbonla kidnap saga came to a rather abrupt end on Friday July 28 after the abducted school boys were released at a creek in Ondo State. The six boys spent 64 days in captivity. The travail of the school boys, all of Lagos State Model College, Igbonla in Epe, began on 25th May, 2017 after ten of them were abducted right in the premises of their school by criminals who would now like to be seen as belonging among militants of the Niger-Delta.
True meaning of the May/June 2017 WASSCE result
THIS week’s column should be seen as one piece with last week’s talking point entitled, ‘Some thoughts for the Nigerian child’. In other words, today’s discussion is, for me, a continuation of last week’s discourse which aimed to take a stand for the younger elements of our society, especially school-age children and the trained youth without much prospect in a Nigeria that is programmed against them.
Some thoughts for the Nigerian child
But for now very little is being done to secure the future of the young or give them a sense that they have any stake in the society we deceive ourselves belongs to all of us
