Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu and his Igbo heroes of Lagos, By Rotimi Fasan
LAGOS is once again riding the crest of national discussion as the age-long controversy about its foundation, birth and growth as Nigeria’s number one city and melting pot has been reignited. Within a space of just a week there have been at least two major claimants to the founding and or development of Lagos, aside thousands […]
It’s been a loud silence from Buhari
By Rotimi Fasan BY the time you’re reading this, it would have been two full weeks, almost, to the day the Supreme Court overturned the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, delegitimising the use of the old N1000, N500 and N200 notes as legal tenders. Since that decision of […]
What can we learn from the 2023 presidential election?
By Rotimi Fasan UNBIASED observers of developments leading to the February 25 elections would find it hard not to agree with supporters of Bola Tinubu, the declared winner, that President Muhammadu Buhari had something against him even if they wouldn’t go as far as saying that the policy that resulted in the seizure of money […]
A look back to the presidential elections
By Rotimi Fasan I HAD in respect of the February 25 elections made the point that all might go well on election day with the real crunch coming when the elections are over. The criticisms that have trailed the elections should tell us that the courts might be the next destination of quite a few […]
An election like no other?
By Rotimi Fasan AS you read this, it’s exactly three days to the 2023 presidential election. This would be one of the most consequential elections in recent memory, and despite the feeling that it is unprecedented in terms of its potential to falter, there is a whole sense of deja vu about it. There is […]
Does the president need another week to end our drought?
By Rotimi Fasan IT’s already midweek as you read this. Dare we hope that the week can yet end on a happy note for Nigerians? The first two days of the week had not been different from the previous week of contrived trouble, when Nigerians were railroaded into the strange business of trading in their […]
