By Owei Lakemfa NIGER REPUBLIC was rocked by an attempted coup from August 29 to 30, 2026. The plotters invaded the Diori Hamani International Airport, where Air Base 101 is stationed. They also stormed the state broadcaster and the presidential palace. They were defeated, and the populace took to the streets in protest against the […]...
By Humphrey Ukeaja OVER THE past few years, a growing number of food manufacturers, health advocates, and sections of the media have increasingly presented the fortification of ultra-processed products such as bouillon cubes, noodles, sugary beverages, and pre-packaged snacks as a public health response to curb the hidden hunger crisis. Forti...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE Election cycles are when politicians and spin doctors go down memory lane to exhume ghosts of the past. Anything to get at the opponent. Anything to gain the advantage. Suddenly, we are being told again how the leader of the Yoruba, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, “betrayed” his Igbo counterpart, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, and […]...
By Babafemi Ojudu AS ANOTHER election approaches, the subsidy debate is once again raging across Nigeria. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the subsidy on petrol at the beginning of his administration. The consequences have been severe. Transportation costs rose sharply, food prices followed, production became more expensive, and the cost o...
By Olukorede Yishau IN THE days leading to the last governorship election in Osun, the state of the living spring, it looked like the heavens would collapse and the world of those within it would cease to exist. But, when the day came, heaven didn’t fall. Instead, Ademola Adeleke, the incumbent governor, was not only […]
By Owei Lakemfa IF A labour leader has to make a choice between obeying the laws of the country and court orders on one hand, and defending the rights of workers on the other, can there be a democratic choice? That was the question I set out to answer in Abuja on August 21, 2026, […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE YOU MUST have heard it said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has the Nigerian media in his pockets. You may want to wonder how “deep” Tinubu’s pockets are that he can swallow all Nigerian media organizations! In some sense, that idiomatic expression can be true: Tinubu belongs to the tribe of a […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE LAST WEEK, we commented on the scandalously high price of cement in the country vis-a-vis our neighbouring countries which import the commodity from Nigeria but where, incredulously, it is cheaper! What kind of voodoo economics accounts for this? The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), a Federal ...
By Olukorede Yishau ON SUNDAY, August 23, 2026, you killed well-loved actor Taiwo Hassan, better known as Ogogo. This was just days after his daughters revealed that you have afflicted his body and rendered him redundant. Ogogo was not just another actor. He was an actor’s actor, one who lit our screen anytime he appeared […]
By Owei Lakemfa DOLLY REBECCA Rebecca Parton-Dean taught the world that poverty is not a reproach. Not a DNA or a sin. In fact, that it can be a badge of honour worn with pride. In her 1971 classic “Coat of Many Colours” she stitched a true story of poverty with the Biblical story of […]
