Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Bolanle Bolawole
Unlike Comrade Dipo Fashina (aka Jingo) and Comrade Segun Osoba, Comrade (Professor) Biodun Jeyifo never taught me at the University of Ife (renamed Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife. But like other Marxist lecturers at the university such as Professor Toye Olorode, Idowu Awopetu, G. G. Darah, Malam Femi Taiwo and many others, BJ actually taught me outside the classroom walls.
By Segun Adediran
The architecture of death row is not built of stone and steel, but of stagnant time. To be on death row is to live in the "After"—dead, yet living. You are a ghost inhabiting a body that the state has already marked as a tragic clerical error. It is the only place on Earth where the future is not a mystery, but a fixed point on a calendar: a Tuesday at dawn, a Thursday at midnight, creeping toward you with the silent, rhythmic inevitability of a tide.
By Bola Bolawole
“Men at some times are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings... ” - Cassius to Brutus in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
By Chuka Nnabuife
Even the most accomplished propagandists might once have doubted that Nigeria would reach a point where its history could be taught to children with one of its foundational peoples deliberately marginalised or erased. Yet that is the unsettling reality now confronting the country’s basic education system.
By Hassan Gimba
Israel's message to one of the intermediaries was that it would not participate in the US attack, and therefore asked Iran not to target it. This request was also met with a negative response from Iran, which explicitly stated that with the start of US military action, Israel would be attacked. This made Netanyahu threaten to attack Iran with a force “1,000 times more than they have known”, alluding to the use of nuclear bombs. The US and Europe have been, as part of their propaganda, telling whoever cares to listen that Iran would use the bomb if it had it. The world has now seen who is itching to use it.
By Bolanle Bolawole
In the first instalment last week, the response to the question whether the new FG-ASUU agreement will end strikes in our universities was ambivalent. “Yes” to some but “No” to others. “Yes” if the agreement is seen as a means to an end and not an end in itself. If it is seen as the first step that begins a journey of 1000 years, as a Chinese proverb puts it, because the task of rescuing our university system from the depth into which it has fallen will take more than the signing of an agreement to accomplish.
