Oriire and the courage to reject compromise, by Rotimi Fasan
After 56 harrowing days, the 44 abductees in the Oriire community of Ogbomoso LGA are now out of the forest. These are schoolchildren and their teachers. Two of the teachers had been killed after the abduction while another was killed on their school ground. A commercial bike rider was also killed as the abduction unfolded. But […]
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 […]
Aisha Buhari, Bola Tinubu and the May 29 inauguration
By Rotimi Fasan WITHIN the Muhammadu Buhari household, Aisha, the wife of the president and outgoing First Lady, must be the most avid supporter of President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. She has been a consistent supporter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, party chieftain right from the moment in about 2016 when Tinubu started having trouble […]
‘Forgive me’ is the song on Buhari’s lips
By Rotimi Fasan AT this point, the eleventh hour almost literally of his presidency, perhaps the best thing to say is that President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the emotional intelligence or those finer qualities like empathy and generosity of spirit, that define a true leader. He may have been very adept at wielding the stick, he […]
