Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Max Auchie
There is a different kind of silence in the countryside. It is not the anxious quiet of a ringing phone, but the heavy stillness of abandoned farmlands. Crops rot where they were planted. Footpaths disappear into overgrowth. Entire communities live with one eye open—not listening for a call, but for the distant echo of motorcycles approaching.
By Bolanle Bolawole
“It’s looking like many horses will run in the 2027 presidential race”
“And who are the horses?”
“The incumbent is one of them…”
“God willing!”
“What do you mean?”
“Don’t put anything beyond God. That is why economists say ceteris paribus”
By Steve Osuji
Something eerie happened in Lagos last Saturday. It was a traffic logjam that one would rather describe as, 'the great Lagos lockdown'.
By Azu Ishiekwene
Friends, admirers, and the “Obidient” fanbase of the former Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Gregory Obi, love to call him by the sobriquet “Okwute,” which in Igbo, Nigeria’s third-largest socio-linguistic group, means rock, boulder, or stone. Quite a nice alias – especially if you associate some doctrinal nuances of Obi’s faith with his first name, Peter.
By Bola Bolawole
This appears to be a season of anomy. Controversies, conflicts, and chaos wallop the atmosphere. People are still discussing and arguing over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state visit to London. Who were the gainers? And who were the losers? The economics of the visit, as some critics have argued, suggests that the British merely used us to feather their own nests.
By Bolanle Bolawole
“Do you think President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will revisit his ambassadorial-nominee list, seeing the avalanche of criticisms that have trailed some of the names on the list? Some of them have even been rejected by the countries they were posted to!”
