By Sunday Dare THE RECENTLY rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or National Output of the Nigerian Economy comes in at a time such critical insight and numbers are necessary for planning and global economic engagements. We offer some important facts about Nigeria’s rebased GDP towards correcting the fiction being shared and the doubts being ...
By Owei Lakemfa THE HOLY Book told us that after the first successful genetic engineering which produced Eve, the First Couple committed a misdemeanour. This made God to send them out of the Garden. But in doing so, He did not restrict their freedom of movement. He merely stopped them from re-entering the Garden which […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Published in my “On the Lord’s Day” column, Sunday Tribune newspaper, Sunday 27 July 2025, page 22) ‘BUHARI’s PRESIDENCY was a colossal disaster. He left behind a country poorer, more fractured, and more despairing than he found it. Let those who govern today and tomorrow draw the right lesson: Power is transient, [...
By Olukorede Yishau IN THE acclaimed land of abundance, the almighty America, doctors are not abundant. Dozens of Americans recently took to social media to voice their frustration over the painfully long wait times to see medical specialists. One user shared that her friend, a stroke survivor, could not secure a neurology appointment until M...
By Owei Lakemfa DOGS, NO matter how we view them, are animals. To force human beings to eat like dogs, and under conditions worse than how a dog feeds, is intolerable. But that is what is going on in “God’s own country” the United States, US. It has been plucking alleged illegal immigrants, or those […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE TWO WEEKS ago in this column, I asked what the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the emerging coalition of some of the country’s leading politicians, will do differently from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). An amused reader called and engaged me in the argument you are about to read. “Sir, were you […]
By Owei Lakemfa FOUR LEADING Nigerians died within three months, each leading to one national debate or the other. Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo, noted mathematician and former Governor of Oyo State passed away on April 14, 2025, and the nation mourned him. However, when the iconic Polytechnic, Ibadan was renamed in his honour, it ignited [&hell...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.” Article 21(3), Universal Declaration of Human […]...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE (Also published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 20 July, 2025). THE DEATH of three prominent Nigerians happened in quick succession, setting tongues wagging. The first was the passage of the 43rd Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, which occurred on Monday...
By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT ALASSANE Ouattara, 83, is the most favoured boy of the West ruling an African country today. To make him President of Cote D’Ivoire, the West, with France leading, backed two civil wars which claimed thousands of lives. Also, in order that Ouattara became President, French and compromised United Nations troops, march...
