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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]