By Owei Lakemfa THE UNITED States, (US) government of President Donald Trump insulted Nigerians by seeking to offload its responsibilities on Venezuelan immigrants on them. The US in regarding the Venezuelan immigrants as some piece of shit, decided to throw them down Nigeria, a country Trump once referred to as a “shit hole”. The schizophren...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper of Sunday, 13 July, 2025). MY PHONE rang on Thursday, 26 June, 2025 and a long-standing friend was on the line. “I know you are from Owo”, he began. “And I know you will want to comment on the […]
By Yishau Olukorede I WRITE to you not as a mere observer but as a concerned citizen who recognises the gravity and the promise of the task before you. Nigeria stands at a historic crossroads. Your mandate to implement the new tax reform laws is not merely a bureaucratic assignment but a moral obligation, an […]
By Owei Lakemfa THE GREAT warmonger of our time, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, ICC, for war crimes and genocide has proposed President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Israeli Prime Minister, an expert in infanticide and the strategic deployment of starvation to wipe out resistant peoples, handed o...
By Comrade Gerald O Katchy IN RECENT years, the Nigerian justice system has come under intense scrutiny, not just for delays and inefficiencies, but also for the alarming number of wrongful convictions. Two notable cases—Ogbonnaya Igbojionu and Peter Nwachukwu—have reignited debates on the urgent need for reform in our criminal justice system....
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 9 July, 2025). “THEY INITIALLY romanced SDP; then discovered that it was purportedly one of the many spare tyres of the very person they are trying to unseat! They then flirted with ADA, which means ‘machete’ […]
By Elizabeth Osayande NIGERIAN JOURNALISM has a history that predates the nation itself, yet the gender dynamics among its players remain difficult to assess. With over 160 years of history, beginning with the publication of Iwe-Irohin, Nigeria’s first newspaper in 1859, there has been little written about the women who paved the way in...
By Owei Lakemfa THE WORD Bank in its May 2025 Report stated that 75.5 per cent of rural Nigerians are engaged in deadly combats with poverty. The number in the urban areas, it said, is 41.3 per cent with an additional 13 million Nigerians, projected to slip below the poverty line by the end of […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper of Sunday, 6 July, 2025). WHAT A cenotaph! And what a controversy! What memories – bitter and sweet – of the dead! And what engaging scuffles among the living! In all of these, however, we learn useful lessons – […]
By Olukorede Yishau CLIMB IN, buckle up, and adjust your mirrors because Olufunke Grace Bankole’s ‘The Edge of Water’ is no ordinary drive. It is a smooth, soulful cruise through winding emotional roads, sunlit stretches of cultural memory, and a few hairpin turns of fate that will leave you breathless. With Hurricane Katrina looming in [&hell...
