A fight to the finish in Osun, by Rotimi Fasan
In concluding my piece here two weeks ago on the Osun State governorship election that is scheduled to hold on Saturday this week, I had suggested that Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke had successfully skirted around the political landmine represented by the federal might that could have been deployed against him to threaten his chances in […]
Does the president need another week to end our drought?
By Rotimi Fasan IT’s already midweek as you read this. Dare we hope that the week can yet end on a happy note for Nigerians? The first two days of the week had not been different from the previous week of contrived trouble, when Nigerians were railroaded into the strange business of trading in their […]
Tinubu and the Fulani agenda
By Rotimi Fasan THE contrived cash crunch that has compounded the chaos created by the most prolonged energy crisis in the recent history of Nigeria has continued to torment most Nigerians. It has caused further confusion in their lives and dragged the country’s parlous economy further into the woods. With just two weeks until what […]
Buhari’s and Emefiele’s last game
By Rotimi Fasan IT would be interesting to know what finally happened to convince Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank governor, that it was time to reconsider his single-minded pursuit of the January 31 deadline for the withdrawal of old naira bills from circulation. Shortly after the change in decision was announced, cheeky Nigerians circulated a […]
Tinubu, his Fulani allies and next month’s election
By Rotimi Fasan TODAY makes it exactly a month to the day Nigerians will go to the polls to elect their next president. The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is one of the three leading contenders to the coveted office. In the ordinary opinion of many and as […]
CBN and remaking of the Naira
By Rotimi Fasan WHEN the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, took the decision to redesign the naira, it had a few objectives to achieve. Even if many Nigerians now believe what the CBN has done is merely change the colours of the notes that are now thought to be qualitatively inferior to the old notes, […]
