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!”

By Max Amuchie

There is a particular kind of silence that follows a kidnapping. It is not the absence of sound, but the absence of certainty. Phones stay charged. Families stop sleeping. Every unknown number becomes both hope and dread. In that silence, the Nigerian citizen is reduced to a negotiable asset—waiting, not for justice, but for a price.

By Kio Amachree

Nigeria is not a country anymore. It is a personal enterprise — and the man running it is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a self-styled “godfather” whose methods of holding power bear more resemblance to organised crime than constitutional governance. With 2027 fast approaching, the question 230 million Nigerians must ask themselves — loudly, defiantly, and internationally — is this: How long will we allow one man’s hunger for power to consume an entire nation? Enough is enough. It is time to name the machine, expose its parts, and dismantle it piece by piece.

By Azu Ishiekwene

This is the last thing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) wants to hear, but it has to be said, even if the party digs its thumbs in its ear. It began with the party’s delayed registration. When things were not moving as quickly as the early defectors, mostly from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), had expected, they accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of stalling the registration and of using the Ralph Okey Nwosu-led faction to stoke the delay.

By Bola Bolawole

It is no longer news that Kayode Egbetokun has ceased to be Nigeria’s topmost police officer; the new sheriff in town, as it were, is Olatunji Disu. The change of batons took place less than a month ago. It was a case of one “family member” handing over to another “family member”. Both Egbetokun and Disu had served, respectively, as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) and Aide-de-Camp (ADC) while Tinubu held sway as governor in Lagos state.

By Biodun Durojaiye

For generations, millions of Nigerians have relied on informal group savings schemes known by different names across the country — ajo in Yoruba communities, esusu in parts of the South-West, and adashe in the North.

By Max Amuchie

There are debts that cannot be quantified.They are not financial. They do not accrue interest. They send no reminders. Yet they settle quietly on the conscience and refuse to leave. This is one of them. Some people also enter your life almost silently, almost accidentally, yet leave impressions so enduring that you only recognise their depth in their absence.

By Bolanle Bolawole

“What gives you the impression that all of us can ever become APC?”

“When all the people that matter become APC, what else?”

“And who are those people that matter?”

By Bola Bolawole

Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer and thinker (1828 -1910) and author of “A Confession”, was famously quoted as saying that “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” In like manner, wrong does not cease to be wrong because the strong says it is not; neither does right cease to be right because the weak lacks the capacity to enforce it!

(A Creative Mind, A Dogged Fighter and a Man Full of Love)

By Pastor Jibola Olarinoye

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky and If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky." (S.E. Hinton) This proverbs best suit my one and only friend, AJAGBE ADEYEMI TESLIM a.k.a Omoatitebi

By Max Amuchie

The thought returned to me during a quiet moment of reflection after signing off on the maiden edition of The Sunday Stew. It triggered the memory of a conversation from many years ago with Professor Jibril Aminu, the elder statesman who passed away on 5th June 2025, in Abuja at the age of 85.

By Suleiman Alasa

Salisu Buhari was thirty years old in 1999, or so he claimed. He had just become Speaker of the House of Representatives, the fourth most powerful position in the country, and Nigerians were ready to believe in him. He was young, articulate, and seemed to represent everything that had been missing during the long years of military rule. Then someone at The News Magazine decided to check his story.