By Gboyega Akosile THE LATEST Phillips Consulting State Performance Index (PCSPI) places Lagos at the summit of Nigeria’s state rankings, reaffirming the state’s position as the country’s most competitive economy and a leading example of how strategic governance, fiscal discipline and long-term planning can drive sustainable development. Few ...
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in the TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper edition on Wednesday, 10 June, 2026). EARLY THIS year, Dr. Foluso Falaye, the National President of my alma mater – Owo High School Old Students’ Association (OHSOSA) – sought my intervention on a matter that he had been […]...
By Owei Lakemfa IN THE long struggles against military misrule and for democracy, we lost far more Nigerians under the Babangida dictatorship than under the Abacha regime. However, the fight against Abacha and his bandits was far more tasking. In the case of the former, hundreds were murdered but only a handful of Nigerians were […]
By Rasheed Otun MY DOCTORAL research began with the title “𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺” and later evolved into “𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲” after the University of Lagos awarded me a six-month research grant as a visiting scholar at the University of Georgia. During the course of that research, I realized that what terrorists seek most is publicity. [&he...
By Tunde Rahman The recent abduction of schoolchildren in Ahoro-Esiele Community, Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State, remains deeply distressing. On May 15, 2026, heartless kidnappers abducted 38 schoolchildren, killing one teacher in a heinous assault on our nation’s security and educational system. The Nigerian Union of Teachers and s...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper of Sunday, 7 May, 2026). EFFECTIVE COMMUNICCATION is two-way traffic. Those who govern need to communicate their activities and the reasons for them to the people they bear rule over. Those being ruled also need to let rulers know […]...
By Owei Lakemfa THE FRENCH, following its revolution in 1790, gave humanity the enduring slogan “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” They are ideals worth dying for; but the same French turned out to be some of the most bestial colonialists for whom human life meant nothing. The French colonialists were so vicious that famous African ...
By Olukorede Yishau IT CAN almost be taken for granted that the next governor of Lagos State is Obafemi Hamzat, the man who has seen the in and out of governance in the last two decades. What cannot be taken for granted, however, is whether or not his administration will be able to deliver the […]
By Babafemi Ojudu IN 1977, I sat for the entrance examination into Christ School, Ado Ekiti. Like thousands of Ekiti children of my generation, attending Christ School was a dream. It was the gold standard of secondary education. It was the school every ambitious child wanted to attend, and every parent prayed their child would […]
By Sandile Dlamini, Founder, JuiceMe AS MORE companies expand across African markets, one challenge continues to constrain growth: the complexity of hiring, paying, and managing talent across multiple jurisdictions. Despite rising investment flows, stronger regional trade ambitions under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and a ...
