By Kunle Oshobi THERE IS a number that should shame every official in the Federal Executive Council, rattle every technocrat in the Ministry of Finance, and haunt every Nigerian who has ever waited in a queue for a passport, driven across a collapsed bridge, or sat in the dark through yet another power outage. That […]
By Emeka Monye IN NIGERIAN politics, timing and coalition are often more decisive than individual popularity. As the 2027 presidential race begins to take shape, one calculation keeps recurring in political circles: the path for Peter Obi to unseat President Bola Tinubu runs through Atiku Abubakar. The 2023 election proved that Nigeria’s elec...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLEÂ (Published in the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper edition of Sunday, 10 May, 2026). I READ somewhere that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the forthcoming Ekiti state governorship election, Oluwole Oluyede, warned that the election, slated by the Independent National Ele...
By Olukorede Yishau JUDE DIBIA, ‘In The Quiet That Remains’, follows three friends in a sparkling novel in which misunderstandings fester in quiet spaces and silence reveals the interplay between individual agency and external pressure. We peer into the inner turmoils of these friends with a haunting honesty. We also see how their...
By Babafemi Ojudu SOMETHING NEW is emerging in my country, Nigeria, so new that it resists easy definition. It is a phenomenon that should engage political scientists, philosophers, and thinkers across the world. A man belongs to one party in the morning; by evening, he has shifted to another. By the next day, he is […]
By Babafemi Ojudu ON A recent visit to the United Kingdom (UK), my son lodged me in an apartment at Wembley Park, London. From 48 Olympic Way, it was barely a two-minute walk—up a short flight of stairs—to the entrance of the famous Wembley Stadium. I arrived on a Saturday—match day. What should have been […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE (Published in TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper of Wednesday, 6 May 2026). “I AM tired! I cannot claim to understand this country any more! What should be, is not! What should not, is what is! Can someone please tell me what is happening before I go […]
By Owei Lakemfa COLOUFULLY DRESSED. Waving flags. Singing. Wriggling waists. Exchanging banters. Backslapping. Workers danced at various venues on Friday, commemorating the 2026 May Day. Their smiling faces camouflaged their pains. But their banners and placards revealed their inner thoughts. Their collective speeches tell stories of hunger, g...
By Emeka Monye IN THE build-up to political independence from Britain, Nigeria stood as a frontline voice in African affairs. That role positioned the nation as a leading force on the continent — so central to African liberation and diplomacy that Nigeria was widely perceived as a potential superpower in African geopolitics. And true to [&hel...
By Emeka Monye AS THE race for the 2027 presidential election gathers momentum, Nigeria’s political landscape is already shifting like a chessboard before the first move. Major political bigwigs are jostling for party tickets, testing alliances, and calculating the odds of securing the ultimate prize: Aso Rock. Permutations have begun in earne...
