By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, August 3, 2025). LAST WEEK, I printed here one of the two write-ups on President Muhammadu Buhari that I said aligned with my own views on the late president’s place in history. Today I bring you […]
By Owei Lakemfa HISTORY WAS made. It was the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent. Benin Republic chose this Day of Saturday July 26, 2025 to implement its new nationality initiative for diaspora and Black individuals. The law, passed on September 2, 2024, grants Beninese citizenship to descendants of African...
By Olukorede Yishau THIS YEAR’s the Nigeria Prize for Literature longlist showcases a diverse range of narratives. In some of them, ghosts and otherworldly figures are characters. Two of the eleven authors on the list are past winners. Chika Unigwe won the prize in 2012 and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim won it in 2016. Of the […]
By Reuben Abati NIGERIA’s SENIOR female soccer team, the Super Falcons are the Queens of Africa given their superlative, dominant and creative performance, their resilience, and agility at the just concluded Women’s African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Morocco, July 5–26. Since the incept...
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu NIGERIAN LEADERS must be taken to task for making the country look quite small through their clannishness. The powers-that-be of Nigeria take great pleasure in describing the country as the “Giant of Africa.” A towering giant is not expected to have very small-minded leaders. A giant with the feet of clay […]
By Bagudu Mohammed IN A dramatic twist of national pride and presidential flair, Nigeria’s Super Falcons have just received what might be the most generous sports reward in the country’s history—thanks to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to a Daily Trust report, the team, fresh from their triumphant 10th Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (W...
By Bola Bolawole (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 30 July, 2025) LAST WEEK, space constraints did not permit us to reveal more of what ADC will do differently from APC if the coalition of opposition politicians snatch power and run with it in […]
By Sunday Dare THE RECENTLY rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or National Output of the Nigerian Economy comes in at a time such critical insight and numbers are necessary for planning and global economic engagements. We offer some important facts about Nigeria’s rebased GDP towards correcting the fiction being shared and the doubts being ...
By Owei Lakemfa THE HOLY Book told us that after the first successful genetic engineering which produced Eve, the First Couple committed a misdemeanour. This made God to send them out of the Garden. But in doing so, He did not restrict their freedom of movement. He merely stopped them from re-entering the Garden which […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in my “On the Lord’s Day” column, Sunday Tribune newspaper, Sunday 27 July 2025, page 22) ‘BUHARI’s PRESIDENCY was a colossal disaster. He left behind a country poorer, more fractured, and more despairing than he found it. Let those who govern today and tomorrow draw the right lesson: Power is transient, [...
