Lessons From Osun 2026 and the road to 2027: Parties, personalities and the coming contest (2), by Usman Sarki
The first part of this article concluded with the observation that while all politics may indeed be local, the economic hardship confronting Nigerians today is anything but local. But before examining how these conditions may shape the 2027 elections, the Osun experience invites us to confront an even more fundamental question: what exactly do our political parties […]
Student venture capital grant: Mentorship is vital
By Dele Sobowale Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen and a push in the right direction.” VANGUARD’s Editorial on April 22, 2026, titled, ‘Making the Student Venture Capital Grant successful’, was mostly right in its recommendations to the Federal Government regarding S-VCG. The editors can be forgiven for not knowing that the […]
Zenith Bank couldn’t have been luckier, by Tonnie Iredia
In this era of unbridled political brouhaha, it is significant that Zenith Bank, a leading financial institution in Nigeria was able to briefly capture the attention of citizens to share the good news of an end to one glorious era and the beginning of another in its operations. The famous Jim Ovia, whose name was […]
Hamzat and the wisdom of sages, by Dele Sobowale
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if thw audience is deaf” – Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974, VBQ p 275. Seldom does the nomination of a candidate for any office arrest my attention and receive my endorsement as that of Dr Olufemi Hamzat, the Deputy Governor of Lagos State. By choice, I have never […]
If I had my way, by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
How many times have you heard people say, If I had my way……………. Then they would go ahead to list all those things they would do if they had the final say on the matter. Everyone of us has such a list. This is mine. If I had my way, there would be only three political […]
Still on Favour Ofili, by Patrick Omorodion
The idiom “Procrastination is the thief of time”, according to Wikipedia, was coined in 1742 by a poet named Edward Young. The idiom was, however, popularized by Charles Dickens, one of the most famous and successful writers in 19th-century England. Procrastination doesn’t just steal time, it steals opportunities and reduces your potential to make hay […]
