By Martins Oloja How Unpaid $100,000 Pledges, Missing Abuja Flats And National Honours May Have Cost Nigeria The 2026 Title. And Why EFCC Must Probe The Football House. From Morocco Glory To Morocco Shame: The Untold Story… July 2025, Rabat. The Super Falcons beat Zambia, then South Africa, then Morocco to win Nigeria’s 10th Women’s […]
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By Adekunle Adekoya Again, the matter of fuel subsidy has dominated national discourse in the last few days, with President Bola Tinubu, former vice-president and ADC presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, NDC presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi and a host of others have had not a little to say about the issue. The matter was […]
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By Tunde Odesola If wishes were horses, 1975 would have been the end of King Sunny Ade’s music career. It was the year a Lagos High Court slammed KSA with a nine-month ban, forbidding him from recording music. The ban followed a dispute between KSA and the owner of two leading record labels, Take Your […]
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By Erelu Modupe Martins I read with concern the position credited to Rt. Hon. Jumoke Akindele describing the APC State Reconciliation Committee as “nonsense.” As a concerned member of the APC in Ondo State and, importantly, as a member of the Reconciliation Committee myself, I find such a description particularly unfortunate. My question to the […]
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By Steve Otaloro In the grand continuum of human civilisation, the true measure of leadership resides not in the ephemeral applause of the present, but in the enduring structures that liberate a people from the tyranny of stagnation. Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa has, with the solemn flagging-off of the 2.38-kilometre, 94-span flyover along the Oyemekun–Oba […]
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By Steve Otaloro A wave of speculative reports and calculated inquiries has been circulating in recent days, alleging that Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa has withdrawn his support from the All Progressives Congress candidate for the Ondo South Senatorial District and is instead throwing his weight behind the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the same seat. […]
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By Martins Oloja ‘The Photograph That Fooled Abuja’ The picture went viral within hours. Governor Ademola Adeleke, fresh from collecting his Certificate of Return in Osogbo, standing side-by-side with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja, both men smiling. Adeleke’s signature dance-step energy was on pause. Tinubu’s grin was wide. Within 12 hours, APC WhatsApp groups […]
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INEC ballot box. Photo: INEC By John Kokome As Nigeria gradually enters the political season ahead of the 2027 general elections, there is a growing temptation among politicians to return to the familiar playbook: aggressive campaigns, endless promises, political propaganda, ethnic calculations, religious sentiments and the mobilisation of money and machinery. But if the political […]
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By Reuben Abati The success of the Gubernatorial election held in Osun State on Saturday, August 15, 2026 had implications that went beyond the boundaries of the state. The lead up to the election had been marked by highly febrile conflict, violence and so much anxiety. Being the last major election to be conducted by […]
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Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike By Martins Oloja The beauty and the engine Abuja at 50 looks good and worth celebrating as noted in this serial. The roads are being fixed. The abandoned projects are moving. For the first time in years, authorities want the residents to perceive that “Abuja is […]
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