Saturday, July 4, 2026

Azu Ishiekwene

October 23, 2025

Aparutu and his life coach

If this story reads like a chapter from The Osinubi of PUNCH, it is because he dedicated 45 years of his life to the company.

Demola Osinubi
October 18, 2025

Of Trump, peace deals and the day after

If he pushes for a two-state solution and manages to get Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a round table, that might be the medal-worthy deal of our lifetime!

Donald Trump official portrait
October 9, 2025

What will they eat when they finish the money?

The National Assembly, through the House, is getting one more chance to redeem itself from the eloquent scandal charmingly expressed by the Senate committee chairman.

Akpabio and Abbas
October 2, 2025

How to Drink from a Poisoned Cup: Harold Smith and the Nigerian story

If the British handed Nigeria a poisoned cup, the flawed and bloated federal system has not helped matters. Yet, the Harold Smith story is not a death sentence.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former president Goodluck Jonathan and President Bola Tinubu
September 25, 2025

A cabal in plain sight wants more

We need more risk-takers like Dangote, not self-serving unions and unionists feeding off our misery.

Aliko Dangote and Dangote Refinery
September 19, 2025

Useni’s fight for London house from the grave shames us

Should the Nigerian Bar Association pretend that it’s OK for lawyers to contrive and invent evidence actively without a rebuke?

Useni’s London house
September 11, 2025

An unusual view of banditry

If they talk like bandits, strike like bandits, and leave behind a trail of sorrow, tears, and blood, then, for me, they are bandits, jihadists, criminals, and terrorists.

Bandits attack
September 11, 2025

Why Jonathan won’t contest, whatever the courts say

Former President Goodluck Jonathan and the Labour Party’s presidential flag bearer in the last election, Peter Obi, are perhaps the two most serious contenders.

Goodluck Jonathan in PDP dress
August 28, 2025

Nigeria’s top oil boss walking into a trap 

It’s fine if Ojulari fancies his task as raising the dead, but a long, distinguished list of his predecessors who tried were lunch for the beast.

Bashir Ojulari
August 25, 2025

Putin as the president’s medicine

Beyond Trump-Putin lovefest, Zelenskyy’s brinkmanship, and Europe’s indifference to genuine Russian concerns about being encircled, something must give for peace to take hold.

Russian President Vladimir Putin