By Olukorede Yishau I RETURN, once again, to a familiar terrain. I didn’t know I will stage a return so soon, but Senator Dino Melaye has left me with no choice. He was a guest on this space some weeks ago. He is back, like they say in Gen Z lingo, with a banger. Without […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE THURSDAY, 1ST October 2026, Nigeria celebrates its 66th anniversary. Is there anything at all to celebrate? I know opinion will be sharply divided on this score. There are those who will say there is nothing really to celebrate while others will say comme ci, comme ca! Neither good nor bad. There is […]
By Babafemi Ojudu THERE WAS a time when the presence of government was felt less through radio announcements, billboards, convoys and grand promises than through the ordinary services that made life safer and more orderly. Government lived among the people. Its workers maintained roads, inspected schools, watched over public health, treated m...
By Olamide Martins Ogunlade NIGRIA’s NEW mineral-investment framework with the United States has been presented as an opportunity to unlock an estimated $700 billion in mineral resources and move the country beyond the export of raw materials. On September 24, 2026, on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly in New York C...
By Steve Osuji YOU WOULD probably say, who cares if the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is reduced to the size of a corner pub. But it matters if you love the country. It matters a lot if you are troubled by the mess Nigeria has become at the moment. And the point is that […]
By Owei Lakemfa  THE UNITED Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is the global platform for all countries. So, no country can bar another speaking from its podium. But the United States, US at the on-going UNGA decided that the voice of the Palestinian State will not be heard. Only that of the State of Israel would […]
By Olukorede Yishau THERE IS a brutally frank question every serious institution should periodically ask: If our five most important people disappear tomorrow, can this organisation continue? If the answer is no, there is a succession emergency. And if the answer is, “We will bring back someone who has already retired to continue runnin...
By Owei Lakemfa A COUNTRY’s Ministry of Education is supposed to be a place of illumination with clear ideas about the future. Nigeria has had not just super educators like Professors Wole Soyinka, Ebi Alagoa, Alvan Ikoku and Adamu Baikie, but also outstanding Education Ministers like Abudu Yusufu Eke and Babs Fafunwa. The ongoing confla...
By Reuben Abati THE HIGH- level meetings and debates of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) open today at the UN Headquarters in New York, United States, with about 300 heads of states and governments, Vice Presidents, Ministers, and at least a Crown Prince in attendance. This is the 81st UNGA, the UN having been […]
By Babafemi Ojudu I grew up knowing what Nigeria stood for in the world. I came of age when our opposition to apartheid was not merely a line in a diplomatic communiqué but a national commitment. Nigeria devoted money, influence and political capital to the liberation of Southern Africa. We supported freedom fighters, offered scholarships [&he...
