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 […]
Between Biafra and the 2023 elections
By Rotimi Fasan THE dramatic increase in attacks on facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the South-East bodes no good for the elections due to take place in just about two months. Peter Obi, an Igbo and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, is a front-runner in the elections. If the attacks […]
African football rising?
By Rotimi Fasan FOR the first time since Africa’s participation in the football World Cup, an African team from Morocco has reached the semi-final stage of the event. As is to be expected, this development has caused quite a stir, exciting football followers who have adopted Morocco, the only African country still in the competition, […]
Aisha Buhari, from Wife of the President to First Lady
By Rotimi Fasan I CAN’T be sure now how Aisha Buhari prefers to be identified. Is it as the First Lady or as the President’s wife? At present, she’s more often identified as the First Lady than as the wife of the president, which was the Muhammadu Buhari presidency’s own way of distancing itself from […]
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s verbal miscues
By Rotimi Fasan THE question of how age may have slowed down the physical and mental abilities of Bola Tinubu, the All Progressive Congress, APC, presidential candidate, rendering his claim to the presidency an untenable proposition, has continued to generate debates among Nigerians. While he has responded that he is both mentally and physically fit […]
Popular reactions to Charles Soludo’s comments on Peter Obi
By Rotimi Fasan CHARLES Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank and current governor of Anambra State, has of late incurred the anger of many Igbo among other supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. This for his blunt assessment of Obi’s stewardship as governor of Anambra State and his chances […]
How security agencies sabotage the fight against crime
By Rotimi Fasan IT has become customary for Nigerian security agents and agencies to pass off what should ordinarily be classified information as routine news release. Each time some of these security units and their operatives engage in this unwholesome breach one is reminded of how far many of them have fallen in their knowledge […]
Chris Ngige’s fight with ASUU is dirty and unfair
By Rotimi Fasan CHRIS Ngige, the Minister of Labour, wishes to and could well be the nemesis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities under its present leadership. This, except the union brings to its dealings with him and the government he represents all they can muster by way of strategic thinking and action in […]
Are the Abuja terror alerts a western conspiracy?
By Rotimi Fasan THE United States Embassy in Nigeria just over a week ago issued alerts of possible terrorist attacks on Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. The first of the alerts was an advisory by the embassy warning Americans in Nigeria to be watchful and careful of their movements around the city. While this notice of an […]
The disgraceful partnership between Nigeria and Ethiopian Airlines
By Rotimi Fasan A NATION just as the peoples that constitute its being should have a healthy sense of self-worth. There is a kind of behaviour it must not be seen to engage in if it would not destroy the dignity of its people. Thus, even if it’s only for reasons of national pride, the […]
ASUU should for now mind its business
By Olu Fasan IT would be important that the Federal Government keep to its implementation of the agreement that led to the Academic Staff Union of Universities suspending its eight months long strike. It was the failure of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to stick to the terms of the agreements reached between 2020 and 2021 […]
Court of Appeal’s order: What’s next for ASUU?
By Rotimi Fasan THE decision of the Court of Appeal, CoA, ordering the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, back to work after an eight-month long strike has apparently wrong-footed the union, while simultaneously offering it a way out of the industrial bind into which it had been led by a duplicitous Federal Government that does […]
Akeredolu does have a duty to arm Amotekun
By Rotimi Fasan In the recently concluded three-part series on the candidacy of the Labour Party presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, I highlighted the problem posed by our unitary form of government that is disguised as federalism, as the main obstacle that a Nigerian president in the post-Muhammadu Buhari era must surmount to be successful. This form […]
Peter Obi’s presidential run (2)
By Rotimi Fasan The first major obstacle that any politician who aspires to transform Nigeria in any real sense would encounter and that would immediately hobble rather than enhance their performance pertains to the structure of Nigeria. Ours is a unitary system that disguises as federal. It is a system that robs Peter to pay […]
Peter Obi’s presidential run
By Rotimi Fasan IN the last few years since he left office as two-term governor of Anambra State, the Labour Party, LP, candidate in next year’s presidential election, Peter Gregory Obi, has postured as an advocate of youth leadership and political empowerment. This is in addition to calling for probity and fiscal frugality in governance. […]
Abuja’s priorities are beyond ASUU’s demands
By Rotimi Fasan THE Federal Government through the Central Bank last week released $265 million to airline companies operating in the country. These are mostly businesses owned by foreigners. The aviation industry like most other sectors of the economy has been going through a very rough patch in the last few months. There had been […]
