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 […]
Tinubu, Nigerians don’t want the N8,000 cash transfer offer, By Rotimi Fasan
IF there’s one thing Nigerians seem to be clear on about the proposed measure to ease the immediate harsh effect of the fuel subsidy removal, it is that they are not interested in the conditional cash transfer scheme. Under this plan, the Federal Government is to transfer N8,000 over a six months period to poor […]
Mmesoma and the Igbo sense of injury, By Rotimi Fasan
Now Mmesoma Ejikeme, the 19-year-old secondary school student of Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, has confessed to forging her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, result, some of her enablers have stepped back in a gesture of damage control and are prescribing harsh punishment for her where they are not extending the Joint […]
Tinubu, his supporters and the need for a critical media, By Rotimi Fasan
President Bola Tinubu is only just spending his fifth week in office but despite strong reservations in certain sections of the Nigerian public, especially those yet to accept that he won the last presidential election, the growing consensus among Nigerians is that he has generally done well in his handling of the affairs of state […]
Tinubu can’t take all the tough decisions now, By Rotimi Fasan
To seek to raise the tariff on electricity by as much as 40%, as is being planned from next month and so soon after the removal of subsidy on oil, cannot but further put Nigerians in very precarious economic circumstances
It’s still morning time on Tinubu’s presidency, By Rotimi Fasan
We must not forget that before he got into this office that he has only occupied for three weeks, somebody had been there for all of eight years but could not bring himself to make key appointments for the first six months of his presidency
Tinubu and the June 12 saga, By Rotimi Fasan
IN his June 12 nationwide broadcast, his first since he became president and commander-in-chief, President Bola Tinubu harped on the need for Nigerians to brace up to make more sacrifices on the path to build a virile and economically stable nation. There’s something providential (a point that Jamiu Abiola alluded to in his Arise TV […]
President Bola Tinubu’s petrol subsidy trouble, By Rotimi Fasan
When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu loudly proclaimed the end of the petrol subsidy regime in the Nigerian oil sector in his inaugural address, he probably didn’t anticipate the kind of reception he has been treated to by the leadership of Nigerian workers. The removal of oil subsidy has for many months now been a hot […]
So long, Muhammadu Buhari!
By Rotimi Fasan By the time you’re reading this, it would have been about 48 hours since Muhammadu Buhari vacated office as the 15th president, the fourth since the country’s return to civil governance in 1999, of Nigeria. In a nationwide broadcast on May 28, a day before he left the seat of power in […]
The 10th National Assembly, Peter Obi and the South-East
By Rotimi Fasan IN all the negotiations, horse-trading, debates, controversies and intrigues that are heralding the inauguration and election of presiding officers of the National Assembly on June 13, 2023, the voice of the South-East has been either silent, muted or drowned out by others with stronger claims to the available offices on account of […]
Aisha Buhari, Bola Tinubu and the May 29 inauguration
By Rotimi Fasan WITHIN the Muhammadu Buhari household, Aisha, the wife of the president and outgoing First Lady, must be the most avid supporter of President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. She has been a consistent supporter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, party chieftain right from the moment in about 2016 when Tinubu started having trouble […]
‘Forgive me’ is the song on Buhari’s lips
By Rotimi Fasan AT this point, the eleventh hour almost literally of his presidency, perhaps the best thing to say is that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the emotional intelligence or those finer qualities like empathy and generosity of spirit, that define a true leader. He may have been very adept at wielding the stick, he […]
JAMB, INEC and the 2023 elections
By Rotimi Fasan THIS year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, suffered a hiccup that had a knock-on effect on the remaining examinations slated through the week of the examination. Since many of the exams could not start at the scheduled time, they had to be rescheduled […]
Where is Hudu Ari running to?
By Rotimi Fasan THE Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Adamawa State, Mr. Hudu Ari, seems to have far less sense than one would expect of a man of his status and age. After his misadventure of usurping the constitutional duty of the Returning Officer, Mele Lamido, on April […]
Peter Obi, his supporters and Wole Soyinka
By Rotimi Fasan PETER Obi is in most part hardly different from most Nigerian politicians in terms of their capacity for mischief. Any careful student of his politics will see that he is something of a demagogue which aligns with the fascist tendencies of his obdurate supporters. At a time, last week, when it seemed […]
Peter Obi and his supporters
By Rotimi Fasan THERE is something gravely dangerous about the way the Labour Party, LP, candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, and his supporters, especially his misnamed Obidients base, have gone about their campaign for Nigeria to reconsider the outcome of the presidential election that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had […]
