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What can Obi do with Tinubu’s resignation? By Rotimi Fasan

What can Obi do with Tinubu’s resignation? By Rotimi Fasan

This week we’ll start off with a bit on Westminster-style parliamentary politics. This, since Peter Obi, the NDC presidential candidate, has advised President Bola Tinubu to take a leaf out of the political book of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who yesterday announced his resignation from office. The resignation was a long time coming. […]
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The EFCC arrest of past office holders

The EFCC arrest of past office holders

IT’S been five months, May to October, since baton changed hands among elected Nigerian leaders; for one group of their ‘excellencies’ to vacate office for another. And that’s how long it’s taken the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to ‘perfect’ its case against some past governors suspected to have abused their positions while in office.

‘Occupy wall street’: Cometh the Western Spring?

‘Occupy wall street’: Cometh the Western Spring?

WHILE writing on the UK riots last August, I had, here, traced some of the impulses that gave rise to the riots to certain economic and social inequities within the British society. I did not stop at that. I had extended my reading of the developments in the British society with regard to the riots to what I saw as related developments in other parts of Europe and America.

Our besieged banks and their traumatised customers

Our besieged banks and their traumatised customers

THE last few years have been transformative for Nigerian banks. Beginning from the period under Charles Soludo to the last three years when Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has practically gripped the banking sector by the neck and shaken it out of slumber, Nigerian banks have not remained the same.

Will there be peace in our time?

Will there be peace in our time?

THE 21st day of September is celebrated around the world as World’s Peace Day, a day dedicated to the promotion of all that is peaceful in human culture. The world sure needs peace, lots of it in these times that try the souls of even the most complacent.

Bokophobia and other nonsense

Bokophobia and other nonsense

While Nigeria’s crotch bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, continues to hallucinate in faraway USA that Osama bin Ladin is still alive, the rest of Nigeria remains trapped by the not-too-different disease, caused by fear, that seeks to place Boko Haram, the murderous fringe group that engages in the deadly but cowardly game of bomb throwing- we do, by our act of spreading foolish urban myths, become captive worshippers in the temple of lies built by Boko Haram. And this boko nonsense just needs to stop!