Joshua Dogonyaro s coup speech and Muhammadu Buhari s style vanguardngr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vanguardngr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Before night falls
By Rotimi Fasan
Now the “come has come to become”, more Nigerians are coming to the realisation that the central administration in Abuja has a lot to do in order to secure the lives and properties of Nigerians than it has demonstrated the will to.
Once it was the case that the so-called herdsmen, mainly of the Fulani ethnic stock, were the catastrophe let loose menacing the existence of Nigerians. Everywhere Nigerians turned it was the herdsmen they saw and the constant tears brought to the eyes of Nigerians and their real or perceived involvement in criminalities in different parts of the country made them among the most profiled people in the world.
Garba Shehu: Nigeria, death and the presidency {Opinion} vanguardngr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vanguardngr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Rotimi Fasan
‘The Presidency’, which can be any of Garba Shehu, Femi Adesina or Abubakar Malami, depending on which of them cares to speak at any point in time, is never short of an answer to any question raised by Nigerians.
The Presidency is in a sense the defacto president of Nigeria, another word for and the alter-ego of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has apparently entrusted the fate of Nigeria to it. The disappointing thing about this all-purpose, shadowy body (if anyone is still capable of such emotion as far as Abuja is concerned in this present time) is not so much that ‘the presidency’ has ready-made answers to everything, but rather that the quality of the responses tends to reduce every issue to the realm of partisanship. For the presidency, every criticism is an attempt by implacable opponents of the President to attack him or his government for no good reason.
Between a wailing Godwin Obaseki and a hailing Zainab Ahmed
On
By Rotimi Fasan
ONE of the less aggravating things that happened last week, something that offered diversion if not comic relief from the now-humdrum news of mass abductions and murders whose economic dimension is often occluded by their bestial details, was the spat between two unlikely adversaries: the Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, and the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed.
It followed the release of an apparently private recording of the governor, lamenting the state of the Nigerian economy. In this age of social media and secret devices hardly anything is considered private. Not a locker room, or more precisely, beer parlour talk. Otherwise, Obaseki would probably have kept his musing to himself, or at least within the close circle of his associates.