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John Cardinal Onaiyekan spoke a bit too much, by Rotimi Fasan

The storm that has followed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria’s visit to President Bola Tinubu would certainly not have occurred had the Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, not taken to the airwaves in the form of a television interview he granted Arise News Prime Time anchor Charles Aniagolu to not only speak about […]
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The genocide is not state-sanctioned but it exists, by Rotimi Fasan

With President Donald Trump designating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), and within 24 hours of that designation putting his so-called War Department on notice to invade the country should Abuja fail to execute his orders, can Nigerian Christians, as they were urged by Mr. Peter Obi, the LP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, […]

Coups and rumours of a coup, by Rotimi Fasan

There has been a remarkable shift in the political landscape of West Africa in the last few years. Soldiers are again making an odious entrance into the corridors of power. Silently but steadily, they are returning and the martial strains of their voices are getting louder. It’s becoming fashionable to speak of soldier-rulers in the same […]

A president’s show of mercy, by Rotimi Fasan

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his minders at this point don’t need to be told that whatever they do will always be placed under a magnifying glass to better assess where they may have strayed from the well-beaten path into the bush. They stir extreme reactions from both their supporters and detractors alike. It doesn’t look […]

How the Igbo should respond to the demolitions in Lagos, by Rotimi Fasan

In this concluding part of last week’s discussion, I continue from where I stopped by noting that the moment traders from other markets in Lagos were relocated to the Trade Fair Complex, from then was the vision that animated the establishment of the Complex corrupted. The influx of traders from different markets in Lagos signaled its […]

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