Opinion

By Kabir Taneja A mere two months away from the second anniversary of Hamas's brutal terror strike against Israel, in which hundreds died while many others were taken hostage - and who continue to remain in captivity - Tel Aviv has used this war as an opportunity to reshape its strategic architecture for the long term. Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has called it his country's "seven-front war" and has mobilised militarily to reshape and re-stack the country's long-standing border infractions with not just the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah, but beyond as well, as highlighted by the joint US-Israel…

By SHEDDY OZOENE I’m not one of those impatient Nigerians nagging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his refusal—two years after assuming office—to appoint ambassadors for our foreign missions. The man clearly knows something we don’t. Our foreign missions, despite being headless, are not collapsing. In fact, the embassies are even more vibrant without those tie-wearing “Your Excellencies” burning our dollars in diplomatic cocktails. Besides, the President himself has been serving well as our Ambassador-in-Chief, shaking hands across continents, attending trade exhibitions, arranging future Nigerian settlements in Japan, and signing MOUs in Brasilia. With his kind of do-it-yourself presidential hustle, who…

By Tunde Gbadamosi As the race towards the 2027 general elections gathers momentum, there is growing concern in the Oyo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC). The once domineering party in the Pace Setter State is already looking in tatters with many leaders of the party being sidelined from federal appointments as well as excised from the party's activities. The genesis of the APC problem in Oyo State is the appointment of Adegoke Adelabu as Minister of Power. Adelabu, it could be recalled, left APC and contested the Oyo State Governorship election under the Accord Party's platform in 2023.…

By Abdullah Dan'azumi Mohammed Golkos There is no location anywhere that is neither bound by Geography nor defined by it. Likewise, there is no individual anywhere whose location cannot be precisely described through geographical position systems using the latitude and the longitude zones which in turn govern space and time. Like location to Geography, so also are numbers as qualifying and quantifying objects to groups or objects. While the former is definitive of space intertwined with time, the latter is a subjective term based on prevailing circumstances which, unlike Geography, are subject to changes in which the minority elsewhere, somewhere…

BY ABRAHAM OGBODO Dear Waziri, Last week, I ended on a hopeful note. That, it is possible to dispatch Caesar for Rome to remain a real Republic. I added that the conspirators would only need to bring on board, a Brutus to strengthen the conspiracy beyond collapse. I promised also to do you a personal letter to explain better. I am therefore writing today to inform you that you are the Brutus that must come on board to give oxygen to the conspiracy to take out the Emperor on the ides of 2027. You may not strictly fit into the…

By OREVA GODWIN I know, the first instinct of most of my dearest readers, in reaction to the question of whether women are weaker vessels may be in the affirmative. After all, the Bible calls women the "weaker vessel." But today, I want to challenge that idea and to postulate that women are not inherently weak. Rather, they’ve been programmed to be seen as weak, so they don't rise to compete with men. When did God call women weaker vessels? Never. The Creator has never called them weak. Why? Because we were all made in His image and likeness, and…

FESTUS ADEDAYO At the risk of being labeled thanatophobic - a preoccupation with death or its anxiety - the grim reality is that, last Tuesday, Nigeria’s music world would have lost veteran Yoruba Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde. Being Muslim, it is in order to say the man popularly known as KWAM 1 would have been buried same Tuesday or early Wednesday. He would have been killed over a mere tiff with an airline official over allegation of carrying liquour on board an aircraft. There is no grimmer way of putting the potential calamity than this. It is a signpost of…

NEWS ANALYSIS By TONY ONYIMA, Ph.D. The recent closure of Badeggi Radio in Niger State by Governor Mohammed Umar Bago has reignited a fundamental national conversation around press freedom and the limits of executive power in a democratic state. The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has condemned the governor’s action in unequivocal terms, describing it as “a blatant attack on press freedom and democracy.” Beyond the headlines, however, the incident reveals a more profound unease with how public office holders relate to independent media, and it raises urgent questions about the protection of constitutional rights under Nigeria’s democratic dispensation. At…