By Biodun Durojaiye

For generations, millions of Nigerians have relied on informal group savings schemes known by different names across the country — ajo in Yoruba communities, esusu in parts of the South-West, and adashe in the North.

By Max Amuchie

There are debts that cannot be quantified.They are not financial. They do not accrue interest. They send no reminders. Yet they settle quietly on the conscience and refuse to leave. This is one of them. Some people also enter your life almost silently, almost accidentally, yet leave impressions so enduring that you only recognise their depth in their absence.

By Bolanle Bolawole

“What gives you the impression that all of us can ever become APC?”

“When all the people that matter become APC, what else?”

“And who are those people that matter?”

By Bola Bolawole

Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer and thinker (1828 -1910) and author of “A Confession”, was famously quoted as saying that “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” In like manner, wrong does not cease to be wrong because the strong says it is not; neither does right cease to be right because the weak lacks the capacity to enforce it!

(A Creative Mind, A Dogged Fighter and a Man Full of Love)

By Pastor Jibola Olarinoye

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky and If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky." (S.E. Hinton) This proverbs best suit my one and only friend, AJAGBE ADEYEMI TESLIM a.k.a Omoatitebi

By Max Amuchie

The thought returned to me during a quiet moment of reflection after signing off on the maiden edition of The Sunday Stew. It triggered the memory of a conversation from many years ago with Professor Jibril Aminu, the elder statesman who passed away on 5th June 2025, in Abuja at the age of 85.

By Suleiman Alasa

Salisu Buhari was thirty years old in 1999, or so he claimed. He had just become Speaker of the House of Representatives, the fourth most powerful position in the country, and Nigerians were ready to believe in him. He was young, articulate, and seemed to represent everything that had been missing during the long years of military rule. Then someone at The News Magazine decided to check his story.

(A Statement By The 4Th Force)

With the release of the time table for the 2027 general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has officially blown the whistle for the formal commencement of political activities that would culminate with the presidential elections on January 16, and governorship and state elections on February 6. Going by what the time table stipulates, the presidential candidates of the different political parties would be known by May 30, 2026, the last day for the conduct of primaries which are scheduled to begin on April 22, 2026.

By Azu Ishiekwene

When six states in Nigeria’s South-West zone came together in January 2020 to create Amotekun, a regional security outfit to confront social ills spreading across the region, they weren’t reinventing the wheel, despite the political fanfare.

Muhammad Sajo

The political atmosphere in Nigeria gradually grows tense, with analysts pondering on the composition of those to challenge the government at the centre. This piece, however, dwells on the matter in my state - Sokoto, the Seat of the Caliphate.

By Steve Osuji

Last Friday, the well spoken Abia State governor caused a ruckus. Gov. Alex Otti barred his teeth at a journalist he considered impetuous and irresponsible. Mr. Otti's public shower of invectives on an innocent journalist and the ensuing conversations that trailed the event has thrown up the need to take a bit more look at the duties of governors in Nigeria, their attitude to journalism practice and their impact on the society at large.

By Adebamiwa Olugbenga Michael

In the modern arena of political journalism, the interview has become more than a conversation. It is a contest of ideas, a test of credibility and, increasingly, a stage where power is compelled to answer to the public.