By Tony Monye IN POINT of fact, Lagos State is beyond a state. And that is written without any sense of exaggeration. Lagos is more or less a country. The state can be compared to the other countries in Africa, especially along the continent’s west coast. Take a look at the state’s GDP and compare […]
By Stephen Okoroafor OMOYELE SOWORE has spent much of his public life presenting himself as a permanent victim of power. Every confrontation with authority becomes persecution, every court appearance becomes a stage, and every allegation against him becomes proof that the state fears his voice. That routine has served him for years, but recen...
By Olukorede Yishau WHEN I.O. Echeruo fed us three years ago, our palates were filled with assorted dishes, dishes that cater to varying needs. He called these dishes ‘Expert in All Styles and Other Stories’ and we were treated to stories teeming with scandals, sorrow, tears, blood, violence and sex. In the collection, both saints...
By Owei Lakemfa THE UNITED States (US) and some of its partners, notably the United Kingdom (UK) went to Venezuela and carted away 13.5 kilograms of enriched uranium. The materials which can be used to fuel commercial nuclear plants or in research reactors, are from an inheritance research reactor in Venezuela. The research which was [&hellip...
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in the TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper of Wednesday, 20 May, 2026). IF THE Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Olatunji Alausa, thought he would be applauded for the Federal Government policy excusing applicants seeking admission into the country’s Colleges of Education from writing th...
By Emeka Monye A LOT of politicians are still misreading Nigeria. That’s especially true of the new entrants to the country’s political circus, the ones who mistake money for momentum and assume that deep pockets can buy power, influence, and the right to decide who gets what, when, and how. Nigerian politics doesn’t work like […]...
By Tunde Rahman THE RACE to the presidency in 2027 is getting more exciting. Last Thursday, May 14, 2026, at the ancient Mapo Hall in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Governor Seyi Makinde formally threw his hat into the ring and organised a spectacle that could only have been funded by Oyo State taxpayers’ money. […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLEÂ Â (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune edition of Sunday, 17 May, 2026 edition). IT STILL looks like yesterday when, in 1971, the outgoing military governor of the then Western State, Brigadier Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, performed the foundation laying ceremony of the Owo General Hospital whi...
By Olukorede Yishau THERE IS a video of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo I once saw. It was an interview he granted on black-on-black violence. The video was from an interview he granted while Jacob Zuma was South African president and anti-foreigner violence broke out. Very instructive in what he said is the fact that South Africa […]
By Bola BOLAWOLEÂ It amuses me that a people that cannot deal with their own demons demand that South Africans cage theirs! Nigerians, let your charity begin at home! Tell me, are the Xenophobic attacks in South Africa, condemnable as they are, as gruesome as the daily bloodletting by a coterie of terrorists, Islamic fundamentalists, […...
