It’s a straight fight between Jackson and AMBO, by Rotimi Fasan
The so-called off-cycle governorship election slated for August 15 in Osun State is billed to be a straight fight between the incumbent governor, the ever-ebullient, happy-go-lucky Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, and a former finance commissioner in the cabinet of Adeleke’s predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Munirudeen Oyebamiji, popularly called AMBO. He is an acolyte of the self-respecting, easy-going Gboyega […]
It’s still morning time on Tinubu’s presidency, By Rotimi Fasan
We must not forget that before he got into this office that he has only occupied for three weeks, somebody had been there for all of eight years but could not bring himself to make key appointments for the first six months of his presidency
Tinubu and the June 12 saga, By Rotimi Fasan
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 […]
President Bola Tinubu’s petrol subsidy trouble, By Rotimi Fasan
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 […]
So long, Muhammadu Buhari!
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 […]
The 10th National Assembly, Peter Obi and the South-East
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 […]
