By Babafemi Ojudu I HAVE been looking at this photograph, trying to remember what made us laugh. Was it a joke? An outrageous proposition? One of those arguments in which young journalists settle the problems of their country before remembering that they have yet to settle their own? I cannot recall. But the happiness is […]
By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT BOLA Ahmed Tinubu told Nigerians on October 19, 2026, that they will not return to Egypt. He seems unaware that Egypt is our ancestral home and that we never left and will never leave. This Niger Area is the land of milk and honey we inherited from our fathers and mothers. […]
By Abdulaziz Abdulaziz THROUGH KADUNA, its old political capital, the North spoke yesterday. And the echo will haunt those who have spent months marketing the lie that the North has abandoned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Kaduna Township Stadium was full beyond capacity, and the mammoth crowd overflowed into the well-adorned streets. It wa...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE THE ABOVE title is a combination of the theme of the 5th convocation ceremony of Trinity University, Yaba, Lagos and the title of its convocation lecture delivered by Professor Bode Ayorinde. The vice-chancellor, Professor Clement Olusegun O. Kolawole, had kicked off the convocation activities on Monday, October 12, 2026, w...
By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT BOLA Ahmed Tinubu this week featured prominently in the newest theatre of the absurd staged by Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Jimoh Folorunsho Ibrahim. The stage was the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, where, on October 19, 2026, Ibrahim presented the seven-volume UN 2027 draf...
By Olukorede Yishau “Òkú ń sunkún òkú, àkàsó lórí ń sunkún ara wọn!” (“The dead are mourning the dead, while the vultures above are mourning one another!”) SOMETIMES IN 2008, there was a tsunami at The Nation office, and it looked like the newspaper would not survive it. A group of senior, middle and junior […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE YESTERDAY, TUESDAY, October 20, 2026, I was invited by my professional colleagues at the Lagos Television (LTV), Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos as an analyst to review the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat’s face-to-face grilling by a team of top LTV journalists. LTV tagged the encounter “One-on-one with Dr. Kadri...
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 […]
