By Ali Abare Nowadays, news fly in nano seconds. I was participating in a webiner, the 17th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series organized to mark the 91st birthday of the literary icon, when the anchor broke the sad news. Though I am a bit under the weather for a couple of days, I found
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By Kazeem Akintunde Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF), Boss Mustapha, raised the political barometer in the country a notch higher last week when said that President Bola Tinubu did not play any significant role in the election that brought former President Muhammadu Buhari to power in 2015.According to Mustapha, Buhari, who […]
By Garba Shehu Muhammadu Buhari was the rarest of individuals to grace political life anywhere in the world: an incorruptible servant of the people. He was not motivated by pride, or by riches – the accumulation of which repelled him. He was drawn to public service, discipline, and patriotism, and the unity of Nigeria as […]
By Bolanle BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0705 263 1058 (Published in my ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune newspaper of Sunday, 13 July, 2025). My phone rang on Thursday, 26 June, 2025 and a long-standing friend was on the line. “I know you are from Owo”, he began. “And I know you will want to […]
By Musa Ismail Kontagora, PhD. The cabals in the Villa have succeeded in pushing the VP to the wall. They may be ignorant of the magnifying tendency of this war. He logically declared cold war and willing to give this administration the last straw that will break the camel back. The regrouping will surpass those […]
By Tunde Odesola The presidential convoy spread out on the Third Mainland Bridge like a cloud of bats on seasonal migration. Sirens screamed. Lights flashed. The convoy of vehicles unfolds like the hail of light produced when the welder’s electrode kisses a metal, shraaaah! shraaaah! E plenty like iná wédà to fóká síbè. As an […]










