Why the NBA physician must first heal herself, by Rotimi Fasan
With the emergence of Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya (SAN) as the 33rd president of the Nigerian Bar Association, the controversies that had preceded this year’s election would seem to have subsided despite fears that the post-election period might be mired in litigation. Such fears have so far proven only partially founded, as some lawyers have allegedly headed for […]
Donald Trump’s Oval Office Kingdom, by Rotimi Fasan
The mandate Americans gave to Donald Trump to be their 47th president for a second, non-consecutive term, is all the hubris he needs to imagine he is the president of the world, literally the world’s most powerful man. He goes around with the arrogance of that assurance. Even if his America First policy subsists on an […]
JAMB and its ethnic traducers, by Rotimi Fasan
Now the hurly burly surrounding the fiasco that marred a part of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, is beginning to settle down with the retake of the exam and release of the result sometime today, I hope the ethnic warriors and closet bigots masquerading as thought and political leaders will, if they still have any […]
Nigeria’s opposition in disarray, by Rotimi Fasan
In less than two weeks the All Progressives Congress-led government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would mark its mid-term in office. Which is the same thing as saying that the emergence of the winner of the 2027 presidential election is still more than a year away. But there is palpable confusion in the camp of Nigeria’s […]
Between Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan and Prof Mgbeke, by Rotimi Fasan
Readers may still remember my concluding thoughts from the second of my two-part series on the Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senator Godswill Akpabio’s saga on March 19 this year. Whatever direction the saga ended, the career of the two combatants, either in manipulative conduct or making inappropriate comments, was about being terminated, I said. The twist […]
Nigeria and the Fulani political elite, by Rotimi Fasan
The Northern political elite likes to have its cake and eat it. As part of its grouse against the APC-led government of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it demands an end to insecurity in the North while it makes a lasting solution to the problem impossible. They obviously need a reminder that they can’t have it both ways. […]
