The fight to save Nigeria, by Rotimi Fasan
Last week ended on another note of triumph for the terrorists who are sworn to make life unlivable for Nigerians while the rest of the country mourns. We all came to the sad realization of the death in captivity of General Rabe Abubakar. He had been abducted with his wife about four weeks ago by terrorists […]
A look back to the presidential elections
By Rotimi Fasan I HAD in respect of the February 25 elections made the point that all might go well on election day with the real crunch coming when the elections are over. The criticisms that have trailed the elections should tell us that the courts might be the next destination of quite a few […]
An election like no other?
By Rotimi Fasan AS you read this, it’s exactly three days to the 2023 presidential election. This would be one of the most consequential elections in recent memory, and despite the feeling that it is unprecedented in terms of its potential to falter, there is a whole sense of deja vu about it. There is […]
Does the president need another week to end our drought?
By Rotimi Fasan IT’s already midweek as you read this. Dare we hope that the week can yet end on a happy note for Nigerians? The first two days of the week had not been different from the previous week of contrived trouble, when Nigerians were railroaded into the strange business of trading in their […]
Tinubu and the Fulani agenda
By Rotimi Fasan THE contrived cash crunch that has compounded the chaos created by the most prolonged energy crisis in the recent history of Nigeria has continued to torment most Nigerians. It has caused further confusion in their lives and dragged the country’s parlous economy further into the woods. With just two weeks until what […]
Buhari’s and Emefiele’s last game
By Rotimi Fasan IT would be interesting to know what finally happened to convince Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank governor, that it was time to reconsider his single-minded pursuit of the January 31 deadline for the withdrawal of old naira bills from circulation. Shortly after the change in decision was announced, cheeky Nigerians circulated a […]
Tinubu, his Fulani allies and next month’s election
By Rotimi Fasan TODAY makes it exactly a month to the day Nigerians will go to the polls to elect their next president. The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is one of the three leading contenders to the coveted office. In the ordinary opinion of many and as […]
CBN and remaking of the Naira
By Rotimi Fasan WHEN the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, took the decision to redesign the naira, it had a few objectives to achieve. Even if many Nigerians now believe what the CBN has done is merely change the colours of the notes that are now thought to be qualitatively inferior to the old notes, […]
Buhari and the Tinubu campaign
By Rotimi Fasan MEMBERS of the Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress and, indeed, all other supporters of that party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, must have heaved a sigh of relief to have the President and leader of the APC, Muhammadu Buhari, finally join them again on the campaign trail this week. […]
Obasanjo’s endorsement of Peter Obi and the February election
By Rotimi Fasan OLUSEGUN Obasanjo, a former president and Head of State, has finally made a clean breast of his preferred presidential candidate, presumably among the three leading candidates of Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi, in the presidential election scheduled for less than two months from now. Peter Gregory Obi, the Labour Party […]
Kukah’s final scorecard on Buhari
By Rotimi Fasan AS was the case this time last year, the Catholic Bishop of the Sokoto Diocese, the Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, has again issued a damning score card on the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Kukah has become a consistent critic of President Buhari and of the All Progressives Congress, APC, party-led government. Aside what […]
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 […]
