By Bolanle BOLAWOLE Scripture says from the mouth of two or three witnesses the truth of a matter is established (Deuteronomy 19: 15; Matthew 18: 16; 2Corinthians 13: 1). SO, TODAY I bring another testimony to the so-called 1951 cross-carpeting saga in the Western Region House of Assembly. Taken from Wikipedia, it contains more details [&hell...
By Olurede Yishau ALIKO DANGOTEE has spent decades answering the question, “How much money can one man make?” with the sort of figures that make ordinary human beings check whether they have accidentally entered a different currency. Now, however, Dangote is asking another question: “Who get money make I continue dey make money?” And the [&he...
By Owei Lakemfa THERE ARE not a few who see Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, former Minister of Interior and onetime Osun State Governor, as an enigma. A politician that would not shy away from a fight he considers necessary, even if it appears unwinnable. A man who would yield no ground unless confronted with a […]
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 […]
