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 […]
An election programmed for the courts
IN Nigeria, allegations of corruption have in recent past placed the role of election tribunal in jeopardy. Election petitions, just like the ordinary day-to-day civil cases, are intended to be dealt with by tribunals consistently, fairly without bias or partiality.
An executive ride to death
THE news last week that Katsina State governor, Ibrahim Shema and his entourage, were involved in a fatal accident probably didn’t come to many as a surprise. Several of the Governor’s aides, including his police aide-de-camp, Aminu Ibrahim, perished in the accident while at least four others sustained serious injuries.
Return of Bode, the Lagos Boy
IT was yet another instance of ‘peculiar mess’ when former PDP chieftain, Olabode George, returned home from two years incarceration for financial crimes.
Ghaddafi’s sinking ship
FOR the Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi pride went before a fall. When in the middle of February Egyptian youths decided to send their long time leader, Hosni Mubarak, packing Ghaddafi, it was, came out to say he felt sorry for Mubarak.
How authorities of MMIA abet crime
While the rest of the world and those Nigerians with the presence of mind to be romantic in these hard times were waking up to celebrate yet another Valentine’s Day, residents of Santos Estate in Akowonjo area of Lagos State came under the siege of armed robbers who took over their neighbourhood in the early hours of the morning of February 14.
