What can Obi do with Tinubu’s resignation? By Rotimi Fasan
This week we’ll start off with a bit on Westminster-style parliamentary politics. This, since Peter Obi, the NDC presidential candidate, has advised President Bola Tinubu to take a leaf out of the political book of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who yesterday announced his resignation from office. The resignation was a long time coming. […]
The last generation that passed nothing on, by Stephanie Shaakaa
By evening, the winged termites would arrive in dense swarms around every bulb in the compound, and the entire place would change character. Children would drift out
World Cup and the fading republic of humanity, by Stephanie Shaakaa
The tournament did not erase inequality or power or conflict, but it suspended them just long enough to suggest an alternative way of seeing the world
Gov Okpebholo, state police and ‘The End Of Democracy’, by Emmanuel Aziken
The renewed push for state police in Nigeria has come at a time when the country is bleeding from many fronts. From kidnappings to banditry, cult violence, communal clashes, terrorism, separatist agitation and urban crime, the centralised police structure has become overstretched. The House of Representatives, on June 11, 2026, passed a constitutional amendment bill seeking to […]
Of Birthdays, Michael Jackson and the price we pay for power and fame, by Muyiwa Adetiba
Mr Sam Amuka Pemu, Chairman and Founder of Vanguard Newspapers – he has been Uncle Sam to me for the better part of five decades – celebrates another birthday today. His 91st year on this mother earth. The day I gather, would be just another day – that is if he doesn’t get his way to leave […]
What else can we do about insecurity? By Adekunle Adekoya
ONE long week of horror. That is how I think I can best describe the working week ending today. Just imagine! The week opened with news of terrorists killing three officers of the Federal Road Safety Commission in Kebbi State. Down in Delta State, soldiers and policemen clashed with youths in Emede community in Isoko […]
