By Bola BOLAWOLE THESE ARE interesting times in Osun state aka “State of the Living Spring”, with governorship elections already slated for August 8, 2026. Noted for its world-class tourist attraction called Osun-Osogbo festival, the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, located in Osogbo, the capital of the state, was recognised, in 2005, by UNESCO as a...
By Reuben Abati IN THE early hours of Sunday, December 7, 2025, there was the shocking news of a military intervention in the Republic of Benin, led by one Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri who seized the Beninese National TV, along with his co-putschists and announced that President Patrice Talon had been deposed, all borders leading […...
By Owei Lakemfa THE INTERNATIONAL Press Institute (IPI), Nigeria, part of a global network of editors, journalists and media executives, on Tuesday, December 2, 2025,blacklisted three serving Nigerian leaders. It found Governor Umo Bassey Eno of Akwa Ibom, his Niger State counterpart, Umaru Bago and, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE IT IS not a surprise that attacks and demands for more expose, as some of the commentators have called it, trailed the first and second instalments of “Sixty-Fifth birthday fire-works…” between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former governor of Ekiti state, Peter Ayodele Fayose. The two personalities involved are ne...
IN 1776, Benjamin Franklin the Father of America’s nationalism arrived France as America’s First Ambassador to the then monarchy. As a media owner back home, he helped shaped public opinion in favour of the thirteen colonies taking up arms against their then colonial masters – the United Kingdom. When he arrived in France, he helped […]...
By Tope Fasua IN RECENT weeks, a wave of commentary has suggested that Nigeria’s new tax regime may scare away investors, trigger capital flight, or damage business competitiveness. These concerns, although understandable in an environment where fiscal reforms attract intense public scrutiny, are largely misplaced. The 2025 tax reforms, ancho...
By Owei Lakemfa I HAVE worried that President Bola Tinubu did not appreciate the fact that our country is at war against vicious, unfeeling bandits and terrorists who massacre babies, children, the young and the old. But on November 26, 2025, he proclaimed a state of emergency declaring war on these criminals some of who […]
By Babafemi Ojudu I SPENT more than an hour this morning listening to Edmund Obilo’s interview with Col. Victor Banjo’s daughter, Prof. Oluyinka Omigbodun. As she narrated her father’s life — his brilliance, his courage, his idealism — what leapt out at me was the gaping, almost tragic strain of naïveté that ran through his […]...
By Olukorede Yishau DAVID SZALAY is the reigning winner of the Booker Prize, an honour he received at a dinner in London for his novel, ‘Flesh’. The novel begins with Istvan as a lonely boy living in a block of apartments in Hungary with his mother. Istvan, who has just started a new school because […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE JAMAICA-BORN reggae sensation, Jimmy Cliff, is dead, aged 81. His “House of Exile” (1974) and Tracy Chapman’s “All that you have is your soul” (1989) are my best of all times. Cliff’s “Have you heard the news?“ (1976), in which he dragged Nigeria’s name in the mud over a business deal with […]
