By Owei Lakemfa THE FEDERAL Government on Thursday, October 15, 2026, came close to declaring a state of emergency. The full War Council of the country, chaired by the Commander-in-Chief, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, gave clear directives to the security agencies that war should be carried to the criminals, the captives in the country should [...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THERE IS this saying that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well. What this means is that if a task has real value; that is, if it means something important to you, then, you should put in all your efforts – proper time and care – to execute it […]
By Owei Lakemfa I TRY to understand countries by pounding their streets. This was partly why early morning Monday, October 5, 2026, I hit the streets of New York. How early do people wake up in a city that never sleeps? The rush hour, how is it like? This day, what attracted me most were […]
By Omonu Nelson A POLITICAL earthquake is shaking up the road to 2027: a powerful coalition of federal agency heads has officially formed to spearhead President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election campaign. This unprecedented alignment of institutional heads represents the most strategic and formidable innovation yet ahead of the next general elec...
By Steve Osuji Conversation With General X UPON READING this column last week, an old acquaintance, a retired general of the Nigerian Army reached out to me. Let’s call him General X. We had known since 2004 when I was editing The NEW AGE newspaper, and he was still in service. My weekly column in […]
By Olukorede Yishau THERE IS a new report that troubles me. Its findings about Nigeria, where trust in science can influence whether a parent vaccinates a child, whether a patient follows a doctor’s advice and whether a community accepts a public health intervention that could save lives, are not cheering. The latest findings of the […...
By Bola BOLAWOLE “I am of the opinion that our elections suffer from a combination of leadership, followership, and structural problems. Systems alone will not cure it all!” OUR PEOPLE are fond of comparing notes, especially concerning things that work perfectly elsewhere – so it seems or so we think – against similar t...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE WONDERS WILL never end in this country of one scandal, one day! Here, the more you look, the less you see. Yesterday, I ruminated on the reggae song “One Heart, One Nation” – a Best Legend Reggae Mixtape dedicated to the memories of six artists – Peter Tosh, Alpha Blondy, Lucky Dube, […]
By Owei Lakemfa THE MOROCCAN Delegate at the United Nations October 7, 2026 Hearings in New York on Decolonization, was cladded in a red skirt suit. The choice of colour should have warned petitioners on Western Sahara that she was there not to hear anybody but to fight everybody that did not support her country’s […]
By Owei Lakemfa FUEL SUBSIDY is the main debate in the country today. This is over three years after President Bola Tinubu’s declaration that “subsidy is gone” It was the main debate in the country twenty-six years ago leading to President Olusegun Obasanjo’s establishment of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Ag...
