The fight to save Nigeria, by Rotimi Fasan
Last week ended on another note of triumph for the terrorists who are sworn to make life unlivable for Nigerians while the rest of the country mourns. We all came to the sad realization of the death in captivity of General Rabe Abubakar. He had been abducted with his wife about four weeks ago by terrorists […]
Between the separatists and the builders of Lagos, by Rotimi Fasan
When I made the point that those who chose to criticise the Bariga LCDA for renaming some bus-stops in Lagos without looking at the action that provoked that reaction were being one-sided, I was merely calling for fairness in our evaluation of that episode. I affirmed the right of the LCDA to make that decision and […]
The Igbo claim on Lagos, by Rotimi Fasan
A Yoruba saying has it that when siblings leave a family gathering smiling, they have obviously not spoken the truth to one another. We are in such times of a family indaba and some truths, no matter how inconvenient, are in order. It was just last week that Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca […]
Peter Obi and his kurukere moves, by Rotimi Fasan
Nigerian politicians thrive in chaos and take pleasure in gaining the unfair advantage. They would sooner violate extant conventions, regulations and laws that guide electoral contests than abide by them. There’s hardly any aspect of Nigeria’s electoral practice that is not spelt out in the guidelines provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission and these guidelines […]
The teachable moments that were Buhari’s passage, by Rotimi Fasan
As would be expected of a public figure, the death of former President, Muhammadu Buhari, has dominated the news in the last few days. Report of his passage first came to me on Sunday evening from Arise TV’s Reuben Abati who suddenly deviated from the subject of discussion on the programme he anchors every Sunday […]
Atiku, Obi, Amaechi and El-Rufai: Much ado about a coalition
The camp of the Nigerian opposition parties, made up largely of a mix of disaffected and/or expired politicians, has been in a ferment of excitement in the last few days after they came together under the umbrella of the African Democratic Congress, one of the lesser known political parties that make up the country’s political landscape. […]
Sim Fubara’s comforters, by Rotimi Fasan
Like Job’s friends who chose the worst moments of his grief to berate him, pouring insults and scorn on him in the name of moral support, the suspended governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has never been short of supporters and so-called friends who have been either screaming on roof tops or whispering their kind of […]
The June 12 heroes’ list, its traducers and the revisers of history, by Rotimi Fasan
When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu chose this year’s Democracy Day on June 12 to celebrate heroes of the anti-military coalition and other pro-democracy activists his critics, mostly the usual suspects of opposition elements who have turned political criticism into a career in finding faults by seeing nothing good about the President and his government, not only […]
Questions for the opposition as Tinubu goes to Yelewata, by Rotimi Fasan
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be arriving Makurdi, the Benue State capital, sometime today on a condolence visit to a people who have suffered under terror groups that have massacred families and sacked communities across the state and the wider territories of the North- Central region. Given how long the attacks have continued and the […]
Tinubu, the politics of defection and Nigeria’s opposition, by Rotimi Fasan
Nigeria’s political landscape still looks like a confused field of play with politicians running around like headless chickens bound for the cooking pot. The political parties are in disarray and their members pretend to be hard at work with their avowed plan of moving the country in a new direction. They are full of motion even […]
President Tinubu’s mid-term score, by Rotimi Fasan
The earnestness with which many opposition politicians and the disaffected conclave of commentariat (not the actual mass of hungry Nigerians that are more with the real but mundane issues of bread and butter) looked forward to the mid-term performance evaluation of the Bola Tinubu administration gave the impression that he has completed his first if not […]
