John Cardinal Onaiyekan spoke a bit too much, by Rotimi Fasan
The storm that has followed the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria’s visit to President Bola Tinubu would certainly not have occurred had the Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, not taken to the airwaves in the form of a television interview he granted Arise News Prime Time anchor Charles Aniagolu to not only speak about […]
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 […]
Oborevwori: Taming Delta communal tragedyBy Norbert Chiazor
A sad mayhem unforeseen: the conflict of two communities in Delta—Okuama and Okoloba—deepened by wanton deaths. The casualties: soldiers and civilians.
What kind of broth has Tinubu and Bago prepared? By Rotimi Fasan
While it may not be easy to look a gift horse in the mouth, Tinubu ought to have advised against such name change; it all seems like an act of sycophancy and error that both President Tinubu and Governor Bago can correct; the airport just renamed after Tinubu may one day be renamed after another person
Will “North” allow implementation of the Oronsaye report? By Rotimi Fasan
If there is one good example of how government policies have been implemented for political reasons, establishing a Nigerian Army University where the Nigerian Defence Academy exists is a good example of it
Tinubu, Northern politicians and the Lagos boys, by Rotimi Fasan
NIGERIA’S economic crisis has turned every middling commentator into an expert on economic issues. Among the most voluble are some politicians, opinion moulders and traditional rulers from the North, who virtually slept through Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years in power with hardly a word of criticism except when they felt personally short-changed. The sheer hypocrisy of their […]
It is still a question of structure, by Rotimi Fasan
OPENING the National Reserve, as the Bola Tinubu administration has decided to, may sound good on paper but it cannot address the on-going food crises in the country. This is not sounding pessimistic but our experience of how the government of President Muhammadu Buhari handled the distribution of palliatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, the dodgy manner […]
The problem is with the structure and not the president, by Rotimi Fasan
CHINUA Achebe famously told the world that the trouble with Nigeria is purely and squarely one of leadership. For him the leadership deficit- the failure of vision among the first post-independence generation of Nigerian leaders, the so-called founding fathers of Nigeria, is the reason why Nigeria has failed both as a state and a nation. In […]
Are they making the South-West ungovernable to punish Tinubu? By Rotimi Fasan
THE upsurge in banditry, kidnapping and armed robbery that culminated with the killing of three monarchs and abduction of school children and their teachers in Ekiti State is a dangerous sign of what may have been the orchestration of persons and groups bent on causing acrimony not only in different parts of the country but particularly […]
Ali Ndume, the defender of the North, by Rotimi Fasan
HE probably doesn’t realise this yet but if reactions to his comments on the relocation of some units of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, back to Lagos are anything to go by, Ali Ndume, the Senator from Borno South, is already living in the past. Senator Ndume, as […]
