Ibadan kidnappers and long tale from Ogbomoso terrorists, by Rotimi Fasan
The entire drama that featured the abduction of Mrs. Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul and her 12-year-old twin boys lasted for just three days, between Wednesday and Saturday. Those were tension-soaked days that served mostly to highlight or add to the pressure on a federal government that many had come to see as the very symbol of […]
Olusegun Obasanjo and Yoruba monarchs, By Rotimi Fasan
This is the whole point of Obasanjo’s outburst: the traditional institutions symbolised by the traditional rulers have lost their precedence, and so a state governor is superior to a traditional ruler, no matter how highly placed or revered.
The PEPT decision, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar’s reactions, By Rotimi Fasan
THE Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, has given its final word on the presidential election conducted on February 25 after three anxious months. Its word for the petitioners, that is the opposition parties that contested the outcome of that election, has been damning. The five judges who sat on and made pronouncement over this case […]
The comedy in the tragedy of Ali Bongo’s ouster, By Rotimi Fasan
The dethroned Bongo in his embroidered tunic spoke from a place of fear, confusion and crippling anxiety. It’s not a sight befitting a leader, especially one like Ali Bongo that had held his country and the people of Gabon literally by the throat for nearly one and a half decades.
What are the governors doing with the palliatives? By Rotimi Fasan
It was just that the effect of it was very minimal compared to the amount we are told went into sustaining the oil subsidy bogey. The best part of the subsidy money went into the pockets and bank accounts of shadowy players in the oil sector, including oil marketers that are too quick to make Nigerians groan by their Shylock-like ways.
Tinubu, his ministers and the governors, By Rotimi Fasan
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Monday 21st August swore into office 45 ministers after an eleventh-hour reassignment of portfolios to four of them. Gboyega Oyetola of the Ministry of Transport, Abubakar Momoh of the Ministry of Youth and Bunmi Tunji-Ojo of the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy were respectively reassigned to the Ministry of Marine […]
Why Tinubu must pay for the sins of ECOWAS, By Rotimi Fasan
THIS column last week supported the overwhelming views of Nigerians that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration should have nothing to do with any kind of direct military intervention in the affairs of Niger under the Abdourahamane Tchiani-led junta. That rejection of force in the restoration of democratic order in Niger was based on the pragmatic […]
This is no time to be seen as a war monger, Tinubu, By Rotimi Fasan
THE deadline given by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to the military junta that recently usurped power in Niger to restore the democratic order in that country or be forcefully removed has come and gone. But as far as many Nigerians are concerned, that deadline should have been dead on arrival and […]
NLC: It’s still time for negotiation not strike, By Rotimi Fasan
Everyone and every organisation with a stake in the country ought to rise to the occasion and engage the present policy makers on the way forward; this is not the time for unnecessary posturing and exhibition of bias towards particular candidates in the name of activism
Nigerians are suffering, Mr President! By Rotimi Fasan
WHEN President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the removal of the subsidy on petrol in his inaugural speech on May 29, 2023, most Nigerians supported it and praised him for the decision. The support he received was not because the people enjoyed the pain that came with buying fuel at exorbitant rates. It was not because […]
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 […]
