By Owei Lakemfa A VERY dangerous situation has arisen in the world with the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, on October 31, 2025 deciding illegally, to reverse a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). This has not caught world attention. It has not hit internal headlines because there is a universal complicity. Almost ...
By Owei Lakemfa THE ARE intense discussions going on in Nigeria. Is the United States of America, United States of Nigeria (USA) preparing to attack? If it is, what are the targets? A Government increasingly incapable of securing lives and property? The people, so terrified that they self-impose movement restrictions? Terrorists roaming aroun...
By Bola BOLAWOLE “A 17TH century English author, diplomat, and politician, Sir Henry Wotton (1568 – 1639), was quoted as describing, in 1604, an ambassador or diplomat as ‘an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country’” “How can an honest gentleman also tell lies?” “That is the irony of it […]
By Dr Josephine O. Soboyejo, Ph.D., CCLC I AM not engaging in rhetoric or supporting or opposing, as many Nigerians are doing right now. I want to present the facts I have gathered through research and personal investigation. I spent forty-five years in the political space of Nigeria, serving as an elected member of the […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “ARE REFORMERS-rulers jinxed? Why do they often suffer the dire consequences of the misrule of their predecessors? Sultan Tuman Bay the Second, the Mamluk reformer-ruler of Egypt; Emperor Louis XVI, the reformist Bourbon ruler of France who got caught up in the French Revolution of 1789; Mikhail Gorbachev, the reform...
By Tunde Rahman IN AN age when the lines between truth and falsehood are getting increasingly blurred, I was nonplussed when President Trump labelled Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern on October 31. My incredulity was heightened given that his action stemmed from unproven allegations of genocide against Christians. Was it another deepfa...
By Olukorede Yishau FOREIGN INTERVENTION has never been the cure for internal troubles. Lest we forget, every time powerful nations have marched into weaker ones with promises of salvation, the outcome has been heartbreak, not healing. Somalia learnt this bitter lesson in the early 1990s when American troops landed to restore peace but left b...
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in Bola BOLAWOLE’s TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper of Wednesday, November 5, 2025). WHEN I first ran into the news on 28 October, 2025 on the platform of the University of Ibadan Political Science alumni association, of the transition of one Professor Irene Pogoson, I [&hellip...
By Fredrick Nwabufo “THE PRECISION strikes, coupled with enhanced battlefield awareness provided by the theatre’s Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets, gave troops additional leverage and impetus to respond with overwhelming and lethal force,” — Lieutenant Colonel Sani Uba, Spokesperson of the Joint Tas...
By Babafemi Ojudu GREAT NATIONS are not defined by how loudly they shout in moments of provocation, but by the wisdom, clarity, and steadiness they bring to bear. Today, Nigeria stands at a delicate juncture. Emotions are high, rhetoric is rising, and both global and domestic actors are testing nerves. But this is a time […]
