By Hassan Gimba

There is a phrase that has gained widespread currency across the world: “Physician, heal thyself.”

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Only a day after the price of petrol, a major liquid that moves Nigerian life was increased again - for the third time in a month - Mrs. Remi Tinubu, President Tinubu's wife, had no soothing words for millions of Nigerians who were groaning under the harsh policies that the President announced while being inaugurated on 29 May 2023.

By Gbemiga Ogunleye

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, probably paid him the greatest tribute today, on the occasion of his 70th birthday anniversary.

By Azu Ishiekwene

When the Israeli-Hamas war started one year ago, it didn’t look like it would last long.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to avenge the deaths of over 364 Israelis killed and dozens taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 at a music concert left little doubt it was going to be a bloody phase. But how long, ugly or bloody, it would take for Netanyahu to kill the last Hamas, which was his minimum condition for peace, was hard to tell.

By Bolanle Bolawole

If you have been following the story, before Dr. Segun Osoba’s lecture to the students of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University (“Great Ife”), Ile-Ife, on 1st February, 1974 in commemoration of the 3rd anniversary of the police killing of Kunle Adepeju, an undergraduate student of the University of Ibadan during a peaceful student protest, an ideological argument, as someone called it, took place between Osoba and Professor L. Beverley Halstead. After the lecture, Halstead still would not let sleeping dogs lie but dragged the matter with Dr. Osoba.

By Bolanle Bolawole

The first part of this topic, published on Sunday, 15 September, 2024, was the debate between the Marxist scholar at the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Dr. Segun Osoba (as he then was), and another (conservative, foreign) lecturer in the same institution, Professor L. Beverley Halstead over Osoba’s acceptance of the request by the university’s Student Union Government to “give a small talk” to the Great Ife students on the occasion of the third anniversary of the gruesome murder, on February 1, 1971, of a University of Ibadan undergraduate, Adekunle (‘Kunle) Adepeju, during a peaceful student protest on the U. I. campus.

By Bola Bolawole

The face-off between the anti-corruption agency - the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) - and the immediate past civilian governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, is a sad reminder of how weak and easily manipulated institutions are here. It also showcases the crawling stage of our democratic governance. The ongoing Fourth Republic is the longest stretch of civilian rule we have had since our flag Independence from the British colonial predators on October 1, 1960; which 64th anniversary was marked yesterday.

By Ikeddy Isiguzo

Somewhere in Nigeria, a young lady is spending her days shading more tears, no thanks to the Nigerian Army which she has declared her "mentally ill" with such gusto that it would appear it was a badge of honour. She is Ruth Ogunleye, the female soldier who was discharged from the military for accusing a senior officer, Colonel I.B Abdulkareem, of sexual harassment.

By Azu Ishiekwene

Several good things happen in the bedroom, often the place of rest and renewal. Sometime in 2004, Sam Nda-Isaiah and his wife Zainab conceived the idea of a newspaper there.

By Bola Bolawole

It is a terrible thing when a man’s expectations are cut off. Proverbs 23: 18 says: “For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off” (King James version). Proverbs 24: 14 also says: “So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off”. I don’t now know where preachers, including yours truly, found the addition “the expectation of the righteous shall not be cut off”! May your expectations not be cut off!

• * Identifies Obstacles, Solutions to Humanitarian Interventions

By Dr. Chike Walter Duru and Ann Weru

The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Mohamed Malick Fall, in this exclusive interview, he speaks on the need for a collective response to humanitarian crises in Nigeria, obstacles to humanitarian interventions, and the work of the United Nations, among others. UN OCHA Nigeria’s Head of Public Information, Ann Weru, and Public Information Officer, Dr. Chike Walter Duru, were there. Excerpts:

By Dr Kenechukwu Orji

The media everywhere in the world fight for the less privileged. However, some crafty individuals and groups often attempt to manipulate this media leaning by framing themselves as victims even when they are the aggressors.