‘It is time to move beyond rhetorical hope…Nigeria’s future cannot be built on beautiful aspirations and emotive patriotism, but must be anchored in a collective demand for transparency, justified expectation, equity, responsible governance, and freedom from want on the many needs of living a good life’ What is patriotism? One definition of it which has gained currency but which is …

I did my post field presentation in 2010 thinking that by 2011, I should be done with my PhD but I was wrong. A friend of mine who finished in the same Department (Political science) and the same Faculty (Social Sciences) was the first person to draw my attention to what I have come to tag: “The Politics of Abstract”. …

LWe used to talk regularly. So, when Dele Alake called, I thought it was one of those regular calls. But this time around, he called to inform me of a ‘big job’. ‘Dapo, I have gotten you a big job’, he said. I chuckled because I didn’t understand. In the first place, we never spoke about me looking for a …

The stage was set for the exit and entrance of two Governors of Lagos State. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was exiting, Babatunde Raji Fashola was coming in. On Tuesday, 22 May 2007, the last state Executive Council was held. At the end of the meeting, the Exco was dissolved but the government was still running because it still had seven days …

While the welfare package was being sorted out, I had called a meeting of the Forum of Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants for Monday, 8 May 2006 to discuss some urgent matters. I told members of the Forum during the meeting that all the prayers we made in our submission, in respect of our welfare, had been approved. Therefore, …

A former Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola has urged the incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to use his offices to reclaim the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system and expand the waterway transport system. Fashola advised at the 2024 Lagos Physical Planning Summit on Tuesday. He emphasised the importance of the government’s intervention to regulate the operations of the vehicles …

Despite its challenges, democracy in Nigeria must be protected by every citizen, speakers at an event to commemorate the country’s 25 years of unbroken democratic governance organised by the Lagos State House of Assembly have warned. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Eromosele Ebhomele, the Speaker of …

Former Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola has urged the Lagos State House of Assembly to review the tenancy law to compel landlords to take six months rents. Fashola spoke during a Gala Night to mark 25 years of unbroken democratic governance in Nigeria, organised by the House of Assembly. The Tenancy Law was signed by Fashola in August …

Former Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has disclosed that the only financial benefit he receives from the government is N577,000 monthly pension as… Former Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has disclosed that the only financial benefit he receives from the government is N577,000 monthly pension as a former governor of Lagos State.He also said …

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has congratulated a former governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, on his 60th birthday anniversary. In his congratulatory message in Lagos on Wednesday, Obasa said Fashola, the immediate past minister of works and housing, remained a gift from God to Lagos …