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 […]
Yahaya Bello is playing hide and seek with Nigeria, by Rotimi Fasan
IT is, perhaps, a mere coincidence that has nothing to do with the unfolding saga between him and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, but a couple of video clips of the embattled former governor of Kogi State and lately fugitive from the law, Yahaya Bello, have made their way to the public space of […]
President Tinubu can’t change the tariff on electricity now, by Rotimi Fasan
The categorisation is nothing but a bare-faced manifestation of a localised apartheid system.
Ahmad Gumi, insecurity and the Northern elite, by Rotimi Fasan
Not only does Gumi demand a soft landing for these merchants of gratuitous violence, he mollycoddles them and practically puts the blame for their outlaw activities on just about everyone and anyone except the culprits.
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 […]
