IN his June 12 nationwide broadcast, his first since he became president and commander-in-chief, President Bola Tinubu harped on the need for Nigerians to brace up to make more sacrifices on the path to build a virile and economically stable nation. There’s something providential (a point that Jamiu Abiola alluded to in his Arise TV […]

When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu loudly proclaimed the end of the petrol subsidy regime in the Nigerian oil sector in his inaugural address, he probably didn’t anticipate the kind of reception he has been treated to by the leadership of Nigerian workers. The removal of oil subsidy has for many months now been a hot […]

By Rotimi Fasan By the time you’re reading this, it would have been about 48 hours since  Muhammadu Buhari vacated office as the 15th president, the fourth since the country’s return to civil governance in 1999, of Nigeria. In a nationwide broadcast on May 28, a day before he left the seat of power in […]

By Rotimi Fasan IN all the negotiations, horse-trading,  debates, controversies and intrigues that are heralding the inauguration and election of presiding officers of the National Assembly on June 13, 2023, the voice of the South-East has been either silent, muted or drowned out by others with stronger claims to the available offices on account of […]

By Rotimi Fasan WITHIN the Muhammadu Buhari household, Aisha, the wife of the president and outgoing First Lady, must be the most avid supporter of President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. She has been a consistent supporter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, party chieftain right from the moment in about 2016 when Tinubu started having trouble […]

By Rotimi Fasan AT this point, the eleventh hour almost literally of his presidency, perhaps the best thing to say is that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the emotional intelligence or those finer qualities like empathy and generosity of spirit, that define a true leader. He may have been very adept at wielding the stick, he […]

By Rotimi Fasan THIS year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, suffered a hiccup that had a knock-on effect on the remaining examinations slated through the week of the examination. Since many of the exams could not start at the scheduled time, they had to be rescheduled […]

By Rotimi Fasan THE Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Adamawa State, Mr. Hudu Ari, seems to have far less sense than one would expect of a man of his status and age. After his misadventure of usurping the constitutional duty of the Returning Officer, Mele Lamido, on April […]

By Rotimi Fasan PETER Obi is in most part hardly different from most Nigerian politicians in terms of their capacity for mischief. Any careful student of his politics will see that he is something of a demagogue which aligns with the fascist tendencies of his obdurate supporters. At a time, last week, when it seemed […]

By Rotimi Fasan THERE is something gravely dangerous about the way the Labour Party, LP, candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, and his supporters, especially his misnamed Obidients base, have gone about their campaign for Nigeria to reconsider the outcome of the presidential election that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had […]