Month: December 2025

The attention of well-meaning sons and daughters of Ijebuland has been drawn to the recent conduct of Mr. Wasiu Ayinde Marshal Anifowoshe, whose actions, utterances, and deliberate attempts at distorting established royal lineage structures pose […]

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United States airstrikes that targeted Islamic State group militants in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday marked a major escalation in an offensive that the West African’s overstretched military has struggled with […]

Lagosians are advised to remain calm, but not complacent. A new category has quietly been added to the city’s endangered-species register. It is not wildlife. It is open space. Closely followed by greenery, and most […]

Marriage is an emotional institution, but litigation arising from marriage is a technical and evidential exercise. Many spouses walk into court armed with pain, anger, and intuition, only to walk out disappointed because emotions do […]

The drama did not start in Aso Rock. It started in a television studio with bright lights, innocent questions, and one microphone that had no respect for political survival. Honourable Wale Edun sat calmly, adjusted […]

Nigeria has perfected a strange arithmetic: The more you claim to give, the more you are allowed to take. Thus were born Band A, Band B, Band C, not as an instrument of efficiency, but […]

THERE is a lingering problem over the way and manner local governments have been created arbitrarily in this country. The problem became worse under the Military. Some call it Military Nepotism and as it is […]

“Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” —E.M.Forster In the vast landscape of journalism and prose, where words can sometimes feel like mere whispers against the cacophony […]

THE prominent person in the N150m demand to import Chinese trumpets is not even a member of Primate Elijah Ayodele’s INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church located in Oke-Afa, Lagos. Please note this moot point on the […]

Let us dispense with theatrics, sermons, and manufactured outrage. It is time to confront reality. President Donald Trump—whom some have repeatedly portrayed as a political messiah for Nigerian Christians—has imposed a visa ban on Nigeria. […]

I am a student of cosmic science ( natural rhythm/cycles and my over thirty years exposure to cosmic science has convinced me that life, of any form, whether personal or mundane manifests in cycles. There […]

Mr President must be made aware of what Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the President of Dangote Refinery, said at the Press Conference he held and was reported in the Punch Newspaper story of December 15, 2025 […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it appears, is determined to earn an honorary doctorate degree from the General Sani Abacha School of Political Science, Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. General Sani Abacha pioneered the doctrine of “consensus […]

At the heart of Nigeria’s societal resilience lies a profound, yet fragile truth. The Nigerian nation functions not because of a robust, state-provided social security system, but in spite of its absence. In the vacuum […]

Umaru Dikko, was arguably the most powerful minister in the Second Republic of Shehu Shagari government. He, it was, said that since people had not started eating from the dustbins, there was no serious poverty […]

There are truths that don’t just hurt pride; they puncture illusions, strip hypocrisy, and leave us naked, facing our own creation. The Dangote case is one of them. 11,000 Indian technicians recruited because Nigeria couldn’t […]