Ibadan kidnappers and long tale from Ogbomoso terrorists, by Rotimi Fasan
The entire drama that featured the abduction of Mrs. Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul and her 12-year-old twin boys lasted for just three days, between Wednesday and Saturday. Those were tension-soaked days that served mostly to highlight or add to the pressure on a federal government that many had come to see as the very symbol of […]
The NBA and the fight against corruption, by Rotimi Fasan
Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, could not have been wrong when he said that the Nigerian Bar Association was hypocritical in its opposition to the declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State. He attributed this to the loss of the monetary support the NBA was to get as sponsorship of its 2025 […]
From #EndBadGovernance to #TakeItBack movements, it’s all about tantrums, by Rotimi Fasan
Opposition elements again took to the streets this week under the aegis of a so-called movement to take back the rights of Nigerians to economic and social freedoms. They were in specific terms demanding the rights of Nigerians to economic empowerment which they believe has been eroded by the economic policies of the Bola Tinubu-led government […]
The carnage in Uromi was avoidable, by Rotimi Fasan
Nigerians started this week on a very grim note. More than a dozen people, precisely 16 Hausa travellers on their way from Port Harcourt to celebrate the Eid holiday in Kano, were intercepted by a group of local vigilante operatives in Uromi, a town in Edo State already under the siege of kidnappers and so-called […]
The frustrated politicians giving democracy a bad name, by Rotimi Fasan
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is back at his old pastime of canvassing an African approach to global practices. For those who need a reminder, it was he who said that an African approach should be followed in dismantling apartheid in the heydays of the struggle for majority rule in South Africa. Obasanjo called for the use […]
Natasha should save precious time and go to court, by Rotimi Fasan
The fight between Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senator Godswill Akpabio looks like a case of ‘see finish’, to state it in local parlance. Her familial relationship with the President of the Senate (only they and, perhaps, their respective families know the true nature of this relationship) appears to have undermined the respect she has for […]
