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 […]
Who are the bigots? By Rotimi Fasan
A NEW word has apparently entered Nigeria’s political dictionary in the last one year. The word in question – bigot and its nominal variant bigotry- is, in fact, anything but new, yet it has taken on a new valence and semantic twist in the charged atmosphere of Nigeria’s identity crisis and politicking in the advent of […]
What makes a mandate popular? By Rotimi Fasan
The 2023 elections were characterised by violence and voter intimidation in certain places. This is not entirely unheard of in times of electoral contests in our part of the world. Violence, intimidation and voter suppression are, in fact, part of what make our elections and their outcome what they are- a fraught process that leaves huge question […]
Nigerian media must stand firm against dictatorship, by Dele Sobowale
“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arms are always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking and writing [the truth] – John Adams,1735-1826, US President, 1797-1801. The Nigerian media, print, electronic, main line and online, except the traitors in the industry, is under attack now as […]
A national anthem, a people and their leaders, by Rotimi Fasan
After nearly two weeks of political controversy, grandstanding and mudslinging, it’s beginning to emerge, I believe, that the reintroduction of the national anthem that ushered Nigeria into the comity of independent countries in 1960 was after all not entirely the brain child of either one-man or the complacent national legislature that appears to be at his beck […]
President Bola Tinubu’s scorecard, one year on, by Rotimi Fasan
Today makes it exactly a year since Bola Ahmed Tinubu stepped into office as Nigeria’s fifth president in the post-military years. Within minutes of his inauguration, the president made the very consequential decision that has for the most part directed the course of his administration and defined his presidency as a costly political entreprise in the national […]
