By Owei Lakemfa ALIKO DANGOTE has become the first African-born billionaire to reach and surpass a $30 billion net worth. This October, 2025, with a new valuation gain of $430 million, he achieved a net worth of $30.3 billion. But his on-going quixotic contestations with the Nigerian Constitution and the United Nations Universal Declaration of...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (“ON THE LORD’S DAY” column, every Sunday in Sunday Tribune newspaper). …even as Gov. Oyebanji flags off historic Ekiti Ring Road project Last Monday, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, where the maverick Nyesom Wike bear rule, was shut down by protesters demanding the immediate and unconditiona...
By Olukorede Yishau Abdulrazak Gurnah, Africa’s most recent Nobel laureate in Literature, returns with another powerful work, ‘Theft’. Gurnah probes the intersections of memory and belonging in a rapidly changing world. The novel follows three principal characters —Karim, Fauzia, and Badar— and the intricate ways in which their li...
By Owei Lakemfa IN VAIN President Donald Trump cried out that he is no king and does not intend to be one. However, many United States (US) citizens did not appear to be listening. At least some seven million of them did not believe him as they cramped into over 25,000 protest centres across 50 […]
By Comrade Olabode Akinwale ONDO STATE also known as the “Sunshine State” due to its rich natural resources and pleasant climate is blessed with vast agricultural resources, including Cocoa Production and has significant deposits of bitumen, making it one of Nigeria’s leading producers of these commodities. Additionally, Ondo...
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 22 October, 2025). “When beggars die, there are no comets seen/The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes”- Spoken by Calpurnia in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. THE TRUISM in these immortal words of the ...
…If we must uncover the secrets of his many mouth-gaping successes? By Bolanle BOLAWOLE UNEASY, THEY say, lies the head that wears the crown. “Crown” here symbolises not the cap or whatever that traditional rulers use to cover the head but those in position of authority, for instance, presidents, governors, ministers, commissioners, local gov...
By Andrew Kenechukwu Szewczyk (Most Gen Z of today’s digital age are preoccupied with social media and the attendant social vices. In Africa, many are worried about their lack of education, unemployment and the future. But here are the transformative thoughts incubating in a 14-year-old, Andrew Kenechukwu. Andrew, born to a Polish father and ...
By Olukorede Yishau SOME DAYS back, I had the privilege of reading a soon-to-be-released book that clearly shows that every child carries a world within them, a constellation of thoughts, dreams, and rhythms that no two eyes can fully measure. The book brings to light the fact that some worlds shine boldly, easily seen in […]
By Owei Lakemfa THE 1990s WERE the deadliest for change agents in Nigeria. We lost hundreds. In 1994, some political elites decided to join us. This led to the establishment of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO. One day, one of these elites brought a parcel to the leader of the Campaign for Democracy, CD, Dr […]
