It’s a straight fight between Jackson and AMBO, by Rotimi Fasan
The so-called off-cycle governorship election slated for August 15 in Osun State is billed to be a straight fight between the incumbent governor, the ever-ebullient, happy-go-lucky Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, and a former finance commissioner in the cabinet of Adeleke’s predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Munirudeen Oyebamiji, popularly called AMBO. He is an acolyte of the self-respecting, easy-going Gboyega […]
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 […]
Nigeria and the lessons from American politics, by Rotimi Fasan
JUST hours after the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, an anonymous “travel advisory” found its way into the internet. It was at once satiric and tongue-in-cheek in its advice to Africans, not citizens of particular countries of the continent, to be wary of travelling to America at these times. The advisory expressed concern about the […]
Wole Soyinka, the grand old man of African letters, by Rotimi Fasan
“…I reflected that there was something to be said for birthdays and began to look forward to mine. My only worry now was whether I would have recovered sufficiently to go to school and invite all my friends. Sending Tinu seemed a risky business, she might choose to invite all her friends and pack my […]
