Oriire and the courage to reject compromise, by Rotimi Fasan
After 56 harrowing days, the 44 abductees in the Oriire community of Ogbomoso LGA are now out of the forest. These are schoolchildren and their teachers. Two of the teachers had been killed after the abduction while another was killed on their school ground. A commercial bike rider was also killed as the abduction unfolded. But […]
Tinubu: Papa doc(ked)
THE kwata between former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, and the Code of Conduct Bureau appears to be taking a messy turn with the reported snubbing of the VP, Namadi Sambo, who had been on official visit to Osun by Rauf Aregbesola over the PDP’s alleged failure to allow Tinubu’s supporters into the venue of his trial last week. It’s a big fight the ACN insists the PDP is stage-managing for purely political reasons.
For Gaddafi, the bell tolled
IT’S all ending not with the promised bang but a whimper. After 42 years of what started as a patriotic attempt to return power to the people of Libya from the ruling monarchy of King Mohammed Idris, Muhammar Gaddafi, the one who bore the rank of a colonel but exercised powers beyond those of a Field Marshall was chased away with a $1.4 million prize placed on his head- dead or alive.
For Gaddafi, the bell tolled
IT’S all ending not with the promised bang but a whimper. After 42 years of what started as a patriotic attempt to return power to the people of Libya from the ruling monarchy of King Mohammed Idris, Muhammar Gaddafi, the one who bore the rank of a colonel but exercised powers beyond those of a Field Marshall was chased away with a $1.4 million prize placed on his head- dead or alive.
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?
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.
