The consensus against Nigeria is failing

MANY had probably anticipated that the last National Council of State meeting would have a lot to proffer by way of remedies to the breakdown in the country’s security arrangement. Sadly, that was not to be.

POLITICS is a process of social or political engineering that is all about horse-trading, give and take, disagreement and compromise.

IN the end, the convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the election of its officers into various positions of the party was hinged on a so-called Unity List that may yet turn out to be a document of infamy. The auguries that emanate from the horse-trading that went into the drawing up of that document and its eventual outcome should be disturbing to Nigerians who are discerning.

By Rotimi Fasan WHEN last week I wrote in this space that Nigeria is in trouble, it was not so much an indictment of the Muhammadu Buhari-led government as some might think as it was a call for the government of the day and the rest of us Nigerians to own and acknowledge the crisis […]

THAT a person is sitting on a keg of gun powder aptly describes the state of the Nigerian nation today as in any other time before a major implosion.

By Rotimi Fasan The All Progressives Congress, APC-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari has kicked the can for the decision on petrol subsidy removal down the road by 18 months. Which is the same thing as saying that when it is again time to cross that dangerous bridge, the president, if not the party he […]

By Rotimi Fasan The candidacy of Chief Bola Tinubu for the presidency in 2023 was bound to attract not just interest but also controversy. So far it has lived up to expectations. Of all the presidential aspirants, barring former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Tinubu’s candidacy was destined to elicit the most passionate reactions for the very […]

By Rotimi Fasan I was going to title today’s column “From groundnuts pyramids to rice pyramids”. I opted for “Muhammadu Buhari is working” for one simple reason: using the former title rather than the latter would have occluded the point I wanted to call attention to which is whether President Muhammadu Buhari has, by his […]

By Rotimi Fasan Let us take a few steps back to a section of last week’s column, and please pay attention to the emphasised words: “Here in Nigeria, the beginning of this year should remind us that the present government in Nigeria has less than 18 months to remain in office. Yet many Nigerians have […]

By Rotimi Fasan It’s just appropriate to start the year  2022 with hope and prayers that it will be a far better year than the last few years, especially the last two in which the world has been in the vice grip of COVID-19. Here in Nigeria, the beginning of this year should remind us that […]

By Rotimi Fasan If Nigerians like nationals of other countries remember 2020 as the year that coronavirus rendered useless, 2021 might well be remembered as the year of unprecedented inflation when the prices of goods and services apparently quadrupled. Never mind the figures from the National Bureau of Statistics or any of those agencies whose peculiar […]

By Rotimi Fasan A QUICK admission: I have not read Chief Bisi Akande’s recently launched book, My Participations. But I have read excerpts from it and going by these excerpts the book which comes across as a memoir and not an autobiography could easily have been titled: “Scandals” or “Revelations” or such other less benign title […]

Sowore, despite his bereavement and his personal travail as a political player who has suffered physical and mental torture occasioned by his restriction to Abuja since 2019, sat through it all

Yet, there is a simple solution to this problem, a solution that aligns with Nigeria’s status as a federal state, if only the President, like others who mouth the claim that Nigeria is a federal state, would stop playing the ostrich.