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It’s a straight fight between Jackson and AMBO, by Rotimi Fasan

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 […]
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Senator Ningi, the impossible anti-corruption crusader, by Rotimi Fasan

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 […]

What kind of broth has Tinubu and Bago prepared? By Rotimi Fasan

What kind of broth has Tinubu and Bago prepared? By Rotimi Fasan

While it may not be easy to look a gift horse in the mouth, Tinubu ought to have advised against such name change; it all seems like an act of sycophancy and error that both President Tinubu and Governor Bago can correct; the airport just renamed after Tinubu may one day be renamed after another person

Tinubu, Northern politicians and the Lagos boys, by Rotimi Fasan

Tinubu, Northern politicians and the Lagos boys, by Rotimi Fasan

NIGERIA’S economic crisis has turned every middling commentator into an expert on economic issues. Among the most voluble are some politicians, opinion moulders and traditional rulers  from the North, who virtually slept through Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years in power with hardly a word of criticism except when they felt personally short-changed. The sheer hypocrisy of their […]