Why President Bola Tinubu’s yea should be yea, by Rotimi Fasan
I think it is legitimate to ask if the controversy that trailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s so-called working vacation was inevitable. I personally don’t think so. The problem was as much with the message as it was with the messaging. This takes us back to the observation frequently made by critics of the president’s media […]
Tinubu, the IMF and the Nigerian economy, by Rotimi Fasan
Nigeria’s wobbly economy appears to have humbled everyone. If they are to be taken seriously, not even the big men of the immediate past and the few others used to feeding off the sweat of the struggling majority are spared. Food prices are soaring even as the cost of energy increasingly spirals out of reach. A […]
Now Fubara has “conquered” Wike, what’s next? By Rotimi Fasan
Action Peoples Party, Sim Fubara’s proxy party, the special purpose vehicle through which he is establishing his own hegemony, is certainly full of action, having made a near clean-sweep of the available seats in the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State. Twenty two of these seats are now under the control of the APP, an […]
The President’s address and Olukoyede’s own goals, by Rotimi Fasan
ABOUT an hour before I started writing this, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu read his nationally transmitted address on the 64th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria. Not unexpectedly, he made of this speech a pep talk to advise Nigerians not to lose hope in the face of the mounting economic, social and political challenges that have followed the […]
Finally, Oshiomhole has given Obaseki a bloody nose, by Rotimi Fasan
CONTRARY to the end-time predictions of fake cabalists and aspiring soothsayers masquerading as political pundits, the governorship election in Edo State was essentially violence-free. But for a pocket of incidents that resulted in the disruption of the electoral process, reports of the election were mostly favourable. Voter-turnout was very low with just over 500,000 ballots cast […]
Why should Nigerians be paying more for Dangote petrol than for imported petrol? By Rotimi Fasan
THE hard times Nigerians are passing through are not about to end; it’s getting clearer by the day. The more things change, the more they remain the same. That may sound, these days, like a cliche where Nigerians are concerned. But it says so much about the situation we’ve found ourselves in. For several years and, […]
