By Bola BOLAWOLE “ARE YOU no longer from Ondo State? You used to advertise that place as your dear native land!” “Don’t mind him! Despite all the earth-shaking events taking place there, he has kept mute. Kidnappings, killings, protests…” “The state celebrated its 50th anniversary; yet, nothing was heard from him. Is it because you […]...
By Owei Lakemfa The dynamic Kano State Government under the able leadership of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf on February 18, 2026, the first day of the Ramaddan fast, captured a dozen Nigerians. These prisoners of religious war were apprehended for three types of assault against the religious observance. Eight were captured by the Hisbah Religious ...
By Tunde Rahman A FEW days ago, the National Assembly completed the review of the 2022 Electoral Act, harmonising differences in the amendments passed by the two chambers. In a move highlighting the importance of the new electoral law that will guide the 2027 election process, President Bola Tinubu quickly followed up on Wednesday, February [&...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE I watched the video of a traditional ruler from Igboland, Eze Ogbunechendo of Ezema Kingdom, HRM Igwe Lawrence Okolie Agbuzu OON, CFR, making three controversial statements at the first National Traditional and Religious Leaders Summit held in Abuja last Tuesday. The first was his contention that there was nothing like the...
By Owei Lakemfa AFRICA IS in the vile grip of insecurity. This was the verdict of the African Union, AU, Heads of State 39th Summit which held on February 14, 2026, in Addis Ababa. This should call for a state of emergency. But this was not part of the Summit outcome. It was business as […]
By Babafemi Ojudu NEWS OF the death of Jesse Jackson has prompted a flood of tributes across the world. Many of them rightly celebrate a man who stood, for decades, at the barricades of the struggle for civil rights in the United States (US), marching, organizing, speaking, and insisting that Black lives carried the same […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE If I am to tell, I will say that Nigeria’s problems revolve around her sacred cows. Each and everyone of this country’s problems – be it corruption, insecurity, bad governance, infrastructure deficit, rigged elections, name it – they all revolve around and are traceable to sacred cows. If only we can find [&helli...
By Owei Lakemfa THE INAUGURAL lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE UNLIKE COMRADE Dipo Fashina (aka Jingo) and Comrade Segun Osoba, Comrade (Professor) Biodun Jeyifo never taught me at the University of Ife (renamed Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife. But like other Marxist lecturers at the university such as Professor Toye Olorode, Idowu Awopetu, G. G. Darah, Malam Femi Taiwo and many ...
By Owei Lakemfa INFORMAL FILTERED through a few weeks ago, that “a small team” of United States (US), soldiers were in Nigeria. On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, an additional information was that 200 American soldiers are being deployed to provide security for the small team. I am sure that soon these 200 would need a […]
