By Bola BOLAWOLE (PUBLISHED IN MY “TREASURES” COLUMN ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE WEDNESDAY, 6 AUGUST, 2025 EDITION OF THE NEW TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER). “A fruit, as they say, does not fall far from its tree. And when we develop the habit, and savour the taste, of throwing ourselves into a fray, we run the […]
By Reuben Abati In less than two weeks, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration has been twice lucky with female sports. The Super Falcons won the Women African Football Cup of Nations (WAFCON) title for a record 10th time in Morocco on July 25. While the country was still trying to fully digest the euphoria of […]
By Owei Lakemfa GOVERNOR MOHAMMED Umar Bago, the 51-year-old Governor of Niger State who wears mullah-like beards, is once again trending in the country. He is the star boy of a state gone rogue. On August 2, 2025, even the Federal Government which, as usual, is into its own tantrums in seeking to override the […]
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 […]
