When adult petulance becomes a campaign strategy, by Rotimi Fasan
Considering the reaction of the main opposition parties’ leaders to the Independence Day speech of President Bola Tinubu, I think I’m beginning to see the lineaments of the campaign for the 2027 general election. The shape the campaigns would take is getting clear. This is why I’m returning once again to a theme I have […]
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 […]
Nigerian politicians and the 2027 election, by Rotimi Fasan
OUR Nigerian politicians (for this needs to be emphasised, being the special breed that they are) are like vultures or some other birds of prey already roving in our political sky, waiting to pounce in a sudden dip on the unsuspecting prey on the ground- to snatch, grab and run away with power as the incumbent […]
Taxation and Tinubu’s misplaced courage, by Rotimi Fasan
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu is an accountant who, going by his training, knows a few things about taxation. Accountants know where to look in the books in order to make money. They also have the skill to hide figures, and what they don’t want you to see, you don’t see except you enjoy the benefit of their […]
In praise of the billionaire cop, by Rotimi Fasan
I FIRST heard of Aderemi Adeoye, the so-called billionaire police commissioner through a close family member a couple of years ago. He recently retired from the Police Force as Commissioner in charge of the Awka, Anambra State, Police Command. Based on the description I received of his activities, he was a cross between a human […]
