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 […]
President Bola Tinubu’s scorecard, one year on, by Rotimi Fasan
Today makes it exactly a year since Bola Ahmed Tinubu stepped into office as Nigeria’s fifth president in the post-military years. Within minutes of his inauguration, the president made the very consequential decision that has for the most part directed the course of his administration and defined his presidency as a costly political entreprise in the national […]
Nigerian politicians and the 2027 election, by Rotimi Fasan
OUR Nigerian politicians (for this needs to be emphasised, being the special breed that they are) are like vultures or some other birds of prey already roving in our political sky, waiting to pounce in a sudden dip on the unsuspecting prey on the ground- to snatch, grab and run away with power as the incumbent […]
Taxation and Tinubu’s misplaced courage, by Rotimi Fasan
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu is an accountant who, going by his training, knows a few things about taxation. Accountants know where to look in the books in order to make money. They also have the skill to hide figures, and what they don’t want you to see, you don’t see except you enjoy the benefit of their […]
In praise of the billionaire cop, by Rotimi Fasan
I FIRST heard of Aderemi Adeoye, the so-called billionaire police commissioner through a close family member a couple of years ago. He recently retired from the Police Force as Commissioner in charge of the Awka, Anambra State, Police Command. Based on the description I received of his activities, he was a cross between a human […]
Yahaya Bello’s advance fee payment, by Rotimi Fasan
There is a shorthand expression to name or describe a fraudulent deal in Nigeria and it’s simply to call it 419. This refers to a section of the Nigerian Criminal Code that deals with a specimen of financial crime that became prominent from the 1990s. Typically perpetrated via electronic means, it was initially directed at foreigners […]
Yahaya Bello is playing hide and seek with Nigeria, by Rotimi Fasan
IT is, perhaps, a mere coincidence that has nothing to do with the unfolding saga between him and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, but a couple of video clips of the embattled former governor of Kogi State and lately fugitive from the law, Yahaya Bello, have made their way to the public space of […]
President Tinubu can’t change the tariff on electricity now, by Rotimi Fasan
The categorisation is nothing but a bare-faced manifestation of a localised apartheid system.
Ahmad Gumi, insecurity and the Northern elite, by Rotimi Fasan
Not only does Gumi demand a soft landing for these merchants of gratuitous violence, he mollycoddles them and practically puts the blame for their outlaw activities on just about everyone and anyone except the culprits.
The creek murders, by Rotimi Fasan
ONLY the so-called youths or militants of the Okuama community in the Ughelli South local government area of Delta State knew what they thought they were doing when they chose to take on a contingent of military operatives that ventured into their enclave. They ambushed and put them through the most gruesome kind of death. The […]
Senator Ningi, the impossible anti-corruption crusader, by Rotimi Fasan
SUDDENLY Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi has become the unlikely anti-corruption hero in a drama that was as likely as not entirely of his own making. He has become the toast of civil society as well as human rights groups. Political activists and other regional-cum-ethnic champions are also celebrating and holding him up as a symbol of […]
