Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Bola Bolawole
Christmas is here, but there is no “feferity” that usually heralds its coming. New Year itself is around the corner but there are no signs amongst the people. From 2023, only the super rich celebrate here. The middle class has all but been wiped off, such that it is either you are rich or you are poor. I used to be a proud member of the upper middle class, but now I am counted among the poor, barely managing to keep my head about water.
By Okey Igwesi
The shameful and rejected diplomatic request to return Nigeria's former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu from Britain to Nigeria to serve out his eight year and six months prison term, is yet another diplomatic desperation and humiliation of the All Progressive Congress (APC) government in its plot to capture Enugu State in the 2027 general elections!
By Azu Ishiekwene
If the name of the chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), its secretary, or convention date were the subject of a quiz, there would not be a correct answer because answers don’t exist. The best attempt would be an open-ended response: It depends.
By Gloria Acholonu (Imo State Correspondent, in Owerri)
Frontline politician and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Imo State, Chief Longers Anyanwu (the Ebubedike of Obowo) has appraised the six year tenure of the Imo State governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma (Onwa Oyoko) and scored him creditably, especially in the area of infrastructural developments and innovative projects. Longers who is a former Commissioner for Agriculture in the state between 2007 and 2011 and also a former National Chairman of ACCORD PARTY, however, commended governor Uzodimma for surprising and disappointing his critics who were initially pessimistic that he may not be able to exhibit capacity to turn the fortunes of Imo state around for good. Excerpts:
Q: In very few words, capture your personal impression of the performance of your state governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, in the past six years of his administration.
A: My impression from personal assessment of governor Hope Uzodimma's administration
By Steve Osuji
A sanction long overdue: Thank goodness some form of help is coming for hapless Nigerians, ( especially Christians) at long last.
By Steve Osuji
RUMOURS OF COUP: It's not just about the rumoured putsch, everything about this government seems to be in the mire currently.
By Hassan Gimba
I have a confession. Vice President Kashim Shettima has never been my man. I have never quite taken to him. Not that I hate the man some want to see as the Cicero of our time. But it is also not that I exactly dig the man others prefer to see as overly ambitious. Despite his good performances, especially in delivering speeches and jibes, I have always viewed him with caution. Jibes. Hmmmmn! Perhaps I never saw his jibes, especially those aimed at prominent leaders, as funny—except for the ones about Ahmad Lawan as a tomato seller or Osinbajo as an agwaluma or ice-cream man. I just tended to be icy when it came to him.
By Chike Walter Duru
When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently demanded a staggering ₦1.5 billion from a law firm for access to the national register of voters and polling units, many Nigerians were left bewildered.
Azu Ishiekwene Asks
My mind kept drifting to something which was a big draw for newspaper readers back in the day! No newspaper was complete without a “Leisure Page,” which featured things like “Spot the difference,” “Crosswords,” “Cartoons,” and yes, a horoscope section.
By Jude Ogechi Eze
“The true test of leadership is not how one acts in moments of comfort and convenience, but how one stands firm in moments of challenge and grief.” — Adapted from Martin Luther King Jr.
By Azu Ishiekwene
US President Donald Trump may be getting ahead of himself with the encouraging signs that, following the ceasefire in Gaza, the world might have another opportunity to end the Middle East crisis, one of the world’s longest-running conflicts.
By Azu Ishiekwene
The grave is never satisfied, but other things compete with it for insatiability. I can’t help feeling that some members of Nigeria’s National Assembly will vie for the top place of never enough with the grave, water and fire. Enough is a stranger to them. What happens in these chambers in Abuja, in the name of the people, only God knows.
