Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Sam Omatseye

February 11, 2026

Tributes as celebrated scholar Biodun Jeyifo dies at 80 

Mr Ifowodo stated, “Adieu, sir! Our world was a little better, a little more livable, because you were in it. May your kind come our way more often.”

Biodun Jeyifo
July 21, 2025

Cynical politicians using bowing, flattery to hijack Buhari’s 12 million followers: Sam Omatseye

“As former President Muhammadu Buhari lay, wrapped in his final shroud, in his tranquil bed, some politicians started to exploit the man’s afterglow,” said Mr Omatseye.

President Bola Tinubu bows to the remains of Muhammadu Buhari
July 15, 2025
Bayo Onanuga
July 14, 2025

‘Dead of ideas, selfish, hypocritical serial loser who lacks integrity,’ Tinubu’s man Friday Sam Omatseye pens tribute to Buhari

“He dithered on his successor. He told the world he was not interested, but he tried to undercut the best man in his whole political career: Bola Tinubu,” said Mr Omatseye.

buhari and tinubu
March 23, 2023

Louis Odion: The matter of ‘Capacity’

Since he insists that he is just 50, I’ll have to accept. But by my reckoning, which of course is not just a number, he has gifts far, far beyond his years!

Louis Odion
August 3, 2022

Sam Omatseye finished Peter Obi

Sam Omatseye is a great columnist. And so is our village’s neighbourhood palm wine tapper.

Sam Omatseye and Peter Obi