By Nelson Chukwudi

In politics, sustainable outcomes, even though pursued vigorously, cannot flourish where alienation and coercion thrive. Only collaborative leadership can foster the resilience that gives political relationships desired longevity.

By Azu Ishiekwene

This was tough to write. My heart resisted it, but I yielded to my head. The petrol in my car, a 2.0-litre 2012 Tokunbo Camry, was at half-tank the day before writing.

By Steve Osuji

A return to viledom: Dear reader, it’s actually reverse recedivism we are grappling with here. Let’s start with the basics. A recedivist is someone who suffers a relapse after a successful therapy. Especially so, a criminal who returns to his bad ways after a corrective process.

By Bolanle Bolawole

The first item that caught my attention on Facebook penultimate Wednesday was Mr. Nsikak Essien’s page. It reads: “Christianity is not a primitive accumulation of wealth, an obscene display of opulence”. The photograph of the Catholic Church’s Pope Francis blessing a white car followed. A horde of executives clad in black (business) suits stood behind him. Nsikak’s narrative continued: “This latest Lamborghini car, which costs $200,000.00, was donated to Pope Francis by the car company. After blessing (the car), His Holiness (that is, Pope Francis) donated it (the car) to be auctioned and the proceeds donated to four charity organizations in his (Pope Francis’s) name. How many men of God would do that?”

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.