Why President Bola Tinubu’s yea should be yea, by Rotimi Fasan
I think it is legitimate to ask if the controversy that trailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s so-called working vacation was inevitable. I personally don’t think so. The problem was as much with the message as it was with the messaging. This takes us back to the observation frequently made by critics of the president’s media […]
A week of fuel fury
DID President Jonathan play Nero last week, fiddled while Rome burned? Was he at anytime in South Africa to celebrate the centenary of the African National Congress when Nigeria was held in the throes of a paralysing strike to restore oil subsidy?
Who sows the wind…
THE reactions to the New Year’s Day increment in fuel price are generally the same across the country and are by no means friendly. If anything they promise to be more hostile and aggravating as the days go by. After making it determinedly through Christmas in spite of violent attacks from desperate groups like Boko Haram, Nigerians must have hoped for some quiet, stress-free New Year’s Day.
Time to think big and out of the box
LIKE an evil odour, the fever of death caused by Boko haram is still grimly spreading across the country with death toll from its cowardly Christmas attack still rising…
A debate and two deaths
FOR the very first time since his political career assumed national dimension, Goodluck Jonathan is showing he could be a determined person if the need arose. For quite a long while, the President has shown himself as someone ready to capitulate before any determined opposition.
On the gay rights issue
A LOT of heat with little or no light has been generated by the gay rights bill before the National Assembly. The general impression if one is to go by media reports is that most Nigerians are against same sex relations to say nothing of same sex marriage.
