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  By Olu Fasan Last week, on June 26, Justice Isah Dashen of the Federal High Court, Lokoja, caused a huge judicio-political stir when he se...

  By Olu Fasan The decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to name June 12 as Nigeria’s “ Democracy Day ” was motivated by self-serving polit...

  By Olu Fasan To several Nigerians, Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, should not run for president next year. Some cite age, others ...

  By Olu Fasan Recently, after the mass killing in Jos, Plateau State, President Bola Tinubu said he was not elected “to comfort and create ...

  By Olu Fasan The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is comatose on a deathbed; it’s on life support. The doctors (INEC and the judiciary) are ...

  By Olu Fasan Recently, President Bola Tinubu unceremoniously sacked Kayode Egbetokun as Nigeria’s 22nd Inspector-General of Police, IGP, r...

  By Olu Fasan The vexed debate over the Senate’s refusal to guarantee “mandatory” and “real-time” electronic transmission of results in the...

  By Olu Fasan Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s Marmite president, is by no means a religious bigot. He is a moderate, even liberal, Muslim, who...

  By Olu Fasan By the end of this year, or even earlier, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Nigeria’s ruling party, may control 30 or more ...

  By Olu Fasan Hardly anyone disagreed that Nigeria needed a new tax regime. The erstwhile tax rules were complex and cumbersome, their admi...

  By Olu Fasan In the end, Nigeria’s obsequious Senate lived up to its reputation.  Toadyish as ever, it supinely rubber-stamped President B...

  By Olu Fasan The theory of political justice is based on two conceptions. The first is the ‘might-is-right’ school, which describes the il...

  By Olu Fasan Too often, one hears that it is not Nigeria that needs restructuring, but the minds of Nigerians and their leaders. Those who...

  By Olu Fasan There’s hardly any Nigerian who will disagree with the idea of acting in the national interest. Indeed, one would have to be ...

  By Olu Fasan However much the Presidency tried to explain away President Bola Tinubu’s last-minute cancellation of this year’s Independenc...

  By Olu Fasan  Pardon. An act so seemingly innocuous it should never be controversial. Yet, recently, a state pardon provoked public opprob...

  By Olu Fasan Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former military ruler and former civilian president, is a bundle of contradictions. One co...

  By Olu Fasan President Bola Tinubu cancelled yesterday’s Independence Anniversary parade at the last minute. No reason was given for the c...

By Olu Fasan Siminalayi Fubara returned as “governor” of Rivers State last week, six months after he was magisterially removed from office b...

  By Olu Fasan Earlier this week, President Bola Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, announced that the president had cut short his two-week v...