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.

Whether after this back-to-back in-person appearance in the media the president would continue his engagement with Nigerians. Or he would return, in hibernation, to his old ways

By Rotimi Fasan First, a disclaimer to potential blackmailers, opposition (read ‘wailers’) hunters, and would-be mind-readers who read meanings into and impute motives to other people’s words: Nigeria is best governed as a democratic state and the only civilised and acceptable way to change a non-performing government, for now, is through an election. The military […]

By Rotimi Fasan NIGERIA, the beautiful land richly blessed and endowed with human and material resources, will survive. But right now, the country is in the hands of her wicked children who are determined to take from her all the riches and goodness she possesses. Nigeria is like a nursing mother being violently suckled by […]

By Rotimi Fasan Between the time I am writing this on the morning of Saturday, February 27, and Wednesday, March 3, when you will be reading it, nobody knows how many more Nigerian school children, boys and girls, would have become additional victims of the marauding bands of terrorists that are overrunning many parts of […]

By Rotimi Fasan The world has for more than a week now been treated to images from Texas, in the United States of America, that many Americans thought belonged in the “Third World”. The state was plunged into prolonged darkness caused by extreme weather conditions that froze and disabled the power grid that was not […]

By Rotimi Fasan THE world has for more than a week now been treated to images from Texas, in the United States of America, that many Americans thought belonged in the “Third World”. The state was plunged into prolonged darkness caused by extreme weather conditions that froze and disabled the power grid that was not […]