The ADC crisis, by Rotimi Fasan
The ongoing leadership crisis in the African Democratic Congress was a disaster everyone who is a Nigerian saw coming. Everyone except those bent on reaping where they had neither sown nor watered. Some members of the party in fact read the writing on the wall and gave the impression they were prepared for any eventuality. They […]
Court of Appeal’s order: What’s next for ASUU?
By Rotimi Fasan THE decision of the Court of Appeal, CoA, ordering the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, back to work after an eight-month long strike has apparently wrong-footed the union, while simultaneously offering it a way out of the industrial bind into which it had been led by a duplicitous Federal Government that does […]
Akeredolu does have a duty to arm Amotekun
By Rotimi Fasan In the recently concluded three-part series on the candidacy of the Labour Party presidential aspirant, Peter Obi, I highlighted the problem posed by our unitary form of government that is disguised as federalism, as the main obstacle that a Nigerian president in the post-Muhammadu Buhari era must surmount to be successful. This form […]
Peter Obi’s presidential run (2)
By Rotimi Fasan The first major obstacle that any politician who aspires to transform Nigeria in any real sense would encounter and that would immediately hobble rather than enhance their performance pertains to the structure of Nigeria. Ours is a unitary system that disguises as federal. It is a system that robs Peter to pay […]
Peter Obi’s presidential run
By Rotimi Fasan IN the last few years since he left office as two-term governor of Anambra State, the Labour Party, LP, candidate in next year’s presidential election, Peter Gregory Obi, has postured as an advocate of youth leadership and political empowerment. This is in addition to calling for probity and fiscal frugality in governance. […]
Abuja’s priorities are beyond ASUU’s demands
By Rotimi Fasan THE Federal Government through the Central Bank last week released $265 million to airline companies operating in the country. These are mostly businesses owned by foreigners. The aviation industry like most other sectors of the economy has been going through a very rough patch in the last few months. There had been […]
