The ADC crisis, by Rotimi Fasan
The ongoing leadership crisis in the African Democratic Congress was a disaster everyone who is a Nigerian saw coming. Everyone except those bent on reaping where they had neither sown nor watered. Some members of the party in fact read the writing on the wall and gave the impression they were prepared for any eventuality. They […]
The 18-year admission policy is about leaving leprosy to cure ring worm (2), by Rotimi Fasan
Prof. Mamman may genuinely want to put an end to the bastardisation of the education system but his seems more like a political solution to largely social problem.
The 18-year admission policy is about leaving leprosy to cure ring worm, by Rotimi Fasan
IN SPITE of the controversy that has surrounded its announcement, it is clear that most Nigerians are neither asking the right questions nor is Professor Tahir Mamman’s Ministry of Education taking the right steps about implementing the 18-year admission policy into tertiary institution or sitting the School Certificate Examination(WASCE/NECO). Without any provocation the minister two months […]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s social contract homily, by Rotimi Fasan
She was accused of corruption and plied with death threats for daring to confront the ogres of corruption.
Nigeria, make we get shame small! By Rotimi Fasan
WHEN a country as populous and naturally endowed as Nigeria continues to flounder and is meted the worst form of shabby treatment internationally, it should be a matter of concern. But much too often it is as if the country’s leaders have lost all sense of shame. They are hardly ever bothered by any situation, no […]
When the Patriots came calling, by Rotimi Fasan
GIVEN how it started, struggled to gain traction and finally petered out without cohesion, I doubt if anyone or group of persons could be justifiably called the organisers of the #EndBadGovernance protest. But just when its so-called organisers chose to make a final statement of defiance by bringing it to a grand end on its tenth […]
A misguided protest and a Tinubu government that must bestir itself, by Rotimi Fasan
IN commenting on the possible outcome of the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest when it took off last week, I had in this space made clear that it was as likely as not to end with a whimper rather than the bang that the mostly invisible planners and government officials expected it to be. As I write this, […]
Tinubu should take this ‘’protest” as a warning shot, by Rotimi Fasan
SHOULD it go ahead as planned or advertised in the media in the last few weeks, the so-called #EndBadGovernance protest would as likely as not end with a whimper rather than the bang that many of those who had canvassed for it and others in government who have opposed it had anticipated. The fact is that […]
Nigeria and the lessons from American politics, by Rotimi Fasan
JUST hours after the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, an anonymous “travel advisory” found its way into the internet. It was at once satiric and tongue-in-cheek in its advice to Africans, not citizens of particular countries of the continent, to be wary of travelling to America at these times. The advisory expressed concern about the […]
Wole Soyinka, the grand old man of African letters, by Rotimi Fasan
“…I reflected that there was something to be said for birthdays and began to look forward to mine. My only worry now was whether I would have recovered sufficiently to go to school and invite all my friends. Sending Tinu seemed a risky business, she might choose to invite all her friends and pack my […]
Why Atiku may never become president, by Rotimi Fasan
NIGERIANS know it was President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who famously said he had nursed a lifelong ambition to be the president of Nigeria. It was Tinubu who lent voice to his ambition and for some Nigerians that statement displayed all the signs of hubris, a sense of entitlement that they find insufferable. The statement is of […]
Shehu Sani, Atiku and the growing Northern conspiracy for power, by Rotimi Fasan
DR. Doyin Okupe, I think it was, who first called attention to the nature of the gathering of the Northern Nigerian political elite that met in the Daura country home of former president, Muhammadu Buhari, ostensibly to pay him Eid homage. He said pointedly that it was a political gathering. A galaxy of politicians across party […]
Who are the bigots? By Rotimi Fasan
A NEW word has apparently entered Nigeria’s political dictionary in the last one year. The word in question – bigot and its nominal variant bigotry- is, in fact, anything but new, yet it has taken on a new valence and semantic twist in the charged atmosphere of Nigeria’s identity crisis and politicking in the advent of […]
What makes a mandate popular? By Rotimi Fasan
The 2023 elections were characterised by violence and voter intimidation in certain places. This is not entirely unheard of in times of electoral contests in our part of the world. Violence, intimidation and voter suppression are, in fact, part of what make our elections and their outcome what they are- a fraught process that leaves huge question […]
Nigerian media must stand firm against dictatorship, by Dele Sobowale
“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arms are always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking and writing [the truth] – John Adams,1735-1826, US President, 1797-1801. The Nigerian media, print, electronic, main line and online, except the traitors in the industry, is under attack now as […]
A national anthem, a people and their leaders, by Rotimi Fasan
After nearly two weeks of political controversy, grandstanding and mudslinging, it’s beginning to emerge, I believe, that the reintroduction of the national anthem that ushered Nigeria into the comity of independent countries in 1960 was after all not entirely the brain child of either one-man or the complacent national legislature that appears to be at his beck […]
