Ibadan kidnappers and long tale from Ogbomoso terrorists, by Rotimi Fasan
The entire drama that featured the abduction of Mrs. Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul and her 12-year-old twin boys lasted for just three days, between Wednesday and Saturday. Those were tension-soaked days that served mostly to highlight or add to the pressure on a federal government that many had come to see as the very symbol of […]
JAMB, INEC and the 2023 elections
By Rotimi Fasan THIS year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, suffered a hiccup that had a knock-on effect on the remaining examinations slated through the week of the examination. Since many of the exams could not start at the scheduled time, they had to be rescheduled […]
Where is Hudu Ari running to?
By Rotimi Fasan THE Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Adamawa State, Mr. Hudu Ari, seems to have far less sense than one would expect of a man of his status and age. After his misadventure of usurping the constitutional duty of the Returning Officer, Mele Lamido, on April […]
Peter Obi, his supporters and Wole Soyinka
By Rotimi Fasan PETER Obi is in most part hardly different from most Nigerian politicians in terms of their capacity for mischief. Any careful student of his politics will see that he is something of a demagogue which aligns with the fascist tendencies of his obdurate supporters. At a time, last week, when it seemed […]
Peter Obi and his supporters
By Rotimi Fasan THERE is something gravely dangerous about the way the Labour Party, LP, candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, and his supporters, especially his misnamed Obidients base, have gone about their campaign for Nigeria to reconsider the outcome of the presidential election that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had […]
An interim government?
By Rotimi Fasan MORE than a month after the 2023 presidential election and three weeks after the governorship election, the dust raised from the elections is yet to settle. It has been a case of one week one trouble as the country reels from one controversy to another. Just over a week ago, the Department […]
