Why President Bola Tinubu’s yea should be yea, by Rotimi Fasan
I think it is legitimate to ask if the controversy that trailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s so-called working vacation was inevitable. I personally don’t think so. The problem was as much with the message as it was with the messaging. This takes us back to the observation frequently made by critics of the president’s media […]
Tinubu, his ministers and the governors, By Rotimi Fasan
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Monday 21st August swore into office 45 ministers after an eleventh-hour reassignment of portfolios to four of them. Gboyega Oyetola of the Ministry of Transport, Abubakar Momoh of the Ministry of Youth and Bunmi Tunji-Ojo of the Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy were respectively reassigned to the Ministry of Marine […]
Why Tinubu must pay for the sins of ECOWAS, By Rotimi Fasan
THIS column last week supported the overwhelming views of Nigerians that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration should have nothing to do with any kind of direct military intervention in the affairs of Niger under the Abdourahamane Tchiani-led junta. That rejection of force in the restoration of democratic order in Niger was based on the pragmatic […]
This is no time to be seen as a war monger, Tinubu, By Rotimi Fasan
THE deadline given by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to the military junta that recently usurped power in Niger to restore the democratic order in that country or be forcefully removed has come and gone. But as far as many Nigerians are concerned, that deadline should have been dead on arrival and […]
NLC: It’s still time for negotiation not strike, By Rotimi Fasan
Everyone and every organisation with a stake in the country ought to rise to the occasion and engage the present policy makers on the way forward; this is not the time for unnecessary posturing and exhibition of bias towards particular candidates in the name of activism
Nigerians are suffering, Mr President! By Rotimi Fasan
WHEN President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced the removal of the subsidy on petrol in his inaugural speech on May 29, 2023, most Nigerians supported it and praised him for the decision. The support he received was not because the people enjoyed the pain that came with buying fuel at exorbitant rates. It was not because […]
