By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in the TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper of Wednesday, 20 May, 2026). IF THE Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, thought he would be applauded for the Federal Government policy excusing applicants seeking admission into the country’s Colleges of Education from writing th...
By Emeka Monye A LOT of politicians are still misreading Nigeria. That’s especially true of the new entrants to the country’s political circus, the ones who mistake money for momentum and assume that deep pockets can buy power, influence, and the right to decide who gets what, when, and how. Nigerian politics doesn’t work like […]...
By Tunde Rahman THE RACE to the presidency in 2027 is getting more exciting. Last Thursday, May 14, 2026, at the ancient Mapo Hall in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Governor Seyi Makinde formally threw his hat into the ring and organised a spectacle that could only have been funded by Oyo State taxpayers’ money. […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLEÂ Â (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune edition of Sunday, 17 May, 2026 edition). IT STILL looks like yesterday when, in 1971, the outgoing military governor of the then Western State, Brigadier Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, performed the foundation laying ceremony of the Owo General Hospital whi...
By Olukorede Yishau THERE IS a video of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo I once saw. It was an interview he granted on black-on-black violence. The video was from an interview he granted while Jacob Zuma was South African president and anti-foreigner violence broke out. Very instructive in what he said is the fact that South Africa […]
By Bola BOLAWOLEÂ It amuses me that a people that cannot deal with their own demons demand that South Africans cage theirs! Nigerians, let your charity begin at home! Tell me, are the Xenophobic attacks in South Africa, condemnable as they are, as gruesome as the daily bloodletting by a coterie of terrorists, Islamic fundamentalists, […...
By Kunle Oshobi THERE IS a number that should shame every official in the Federal Executive Council, rattle every technocrat in the Ministry of Finance, and haunt every Nigerian who has ever waited in a queue for a passport, driven across a collapsed bridge, or sat in the dark through yet another power outage. That […]
By Emeka Monye IN NIGERIAN politics, timing and coalition are often more decisive than individual popularity. As the 2027 presidential race begins to take shape, one calculation keeps recurring in political circles: the path for Peter Obi to unseat President Bola Tinubu runs through Atiku Abubakar. The 2023 election proved that Nigeria’s elec...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLEÂ (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 10 May, 2026). I READ somewhere that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the forthcoming Ekiti state governorship election, Oluwole Oluyede, warned that the election, slated by the Independent National Ele...
By Olukorede Yishau JUDE DIBIA, ‘In The Quiet That Remains’, follows three friends in a sparkling novel in which misunderstandings fester in quiet spaces and silence reveals the interplay between individual agency and external pressure. We peer into the inner turmoils of these friends with a haunting honesty. We also see how their...
