By Babafemi Ojudu LAST WEEK, I sat quietly in church, watching Femi Osinbajo celebrate his 70th birthday, with his radiant 92-year-old mother beaming beside him. It was a beautiful moment, one of joy, grace, and gratitude. But in my mind, I saw something else. I saw wreckage. Dust. Screams. I saw the belly of a […]
By O’tega Ogra ECONOMIC REFORM is never painless. Every nation that has had to correct profound distortions has faced the same choice: take the hard medicine early, or delay and pay much more later. In times of public frustration, it is tempting to reach for the “gentle” option (the idea of gradual change), being pushed […]
By Adekunle Eniola IN ALMOST all the states of the federation, the Office of Service Matters is situated within the jurisdiction of the Head of Service (HOS) of each state. Accordingly, the Service Matters Office duties primarily concern the management and administration of the state’s civil service workforce. The office coordinates the...
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 13 August, 2025). “If the Super Falcons can come back from two goals down to turn the tables and win, why not Tinubu? And Morocco is not the first of such miracles. We had the […]
By Owei Lakemfa THE NIGERIAN National Assembly, NASS, while earning one of the highest incomes in the world, has one of the lowest qualities of any parliament in the universe. Lawyers are wont to submit that he who alleges must prove. So, let me submit my proofs on both claims and, you judge if they […]
By Tunji Bello THE PHRASE “Gentlemen of the Press” used for both male and female journalists, has no known origin. But it became popularised following the 1929 American film by Walter Huston who portrayed the life of a professional journalist deprived of joy of ordinary life due to the exigencies of duty. So, with time, […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 10 August 2025). WHEREAS MY resolution was not to comment on the controversy surrounding the burial of the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, pressure from readers caused me to rethink. “Are you afraid?”, one [&he...
By Olabode Akinwale ONDO STATE is no doubt one of the few states in the federation that takes the issue of education management which encompasses the administration and leadership of educational systems at the secondary school level very seriously and conscientiously in a way that is motivated by moral and official sense of right and […...
By Owei Lakemfa THE REGIME in the United States, US, led by Mr Donald John Trump has in the past seven months, introduced many alien relations into international relations. But when many thought it cannot get worse, the American regime is taking decisions that do not appear to be the product of a sound thought […]
By Olukorede Yishau NIGERIA IS not where we want it. It is, in fact, far away from it. So, the news of a coalition vowing to take us there should be exciting. But, there is a lacuna when a look at the men and women in this coalition reveals they have, for decades, had the […]
