A fight to the finish in Osun, by Rotimi Fasan
In concluding my piece here two weeks ago on the Osun State governorship election that is scheduled to hold on Saturday this week, I had suggested that Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke had successfully skirted around the political landmine represented by the federal might that could have been deployed against him to threaten his chances in […]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s social contract homily, by Rotimi Fasan
She was accused of corruption and plied with death threats for daring to confront the ogres of corruption.
Nigeria, make we get shame small! By Rotimi Fasan
WHEN a country as populous and naturally endowed as Nigeria continues to flounder and is meted the worst form of shabby treatment internationally, it should be a matter of concern. But much too often it is as if the country’s leaders have lost all sense of shame. They are hardly ever bothered by any situation, no […]
When the Patriots came calling, by Rotimi Fasan
GIVEN how it started, struggled to gain traction and finally petered out without cohesion, I doubt if anyone or group of persons could be justifiably called the organisers of the #EndBadGovernance protest. But just when its so-called organisers chose to make a final statement of defiance by bringing it to a grand end on its tenth […]
A misguided protest and a Tinubu government that must bestir itself, by Rotimi Fasan
IN commenting on the possible outcome of the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest when it took off last week, I had in this space made clear that it was as likely as not to end with a whimper rather than the bang that the mostly invisible planners and government officials expected it to be. As I write this, […]
Tinubu should take this ‘’protest” as a warning shot, by Rotimi Fasan
SHOULD it go ahead as planned or advertised in the media in the last few weeks, the so-called #EndBadGovernance protest would as likely as not end with a whimper rather than the bang that many of those who had canvassed for it and others in government who have opposed it had anticipated. The fact is that […]
