Nigerian News Leader First with details then facts 
By Bola Bolawole
Karl Marx, the man who taught the world the Marxist ideology and after whom it was named, described religion as the opium (or opiate) of the people. His exact words, in his 1844 work titled “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”, goes thus: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
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 Jude Ogechi Eze
Once celebrated as Nigeria’s premier indigenous university, UNN had, over the years, become weighed down by deteriorating infrastructure, administrative inertia, weakened governance systems, and strained relations with its host communities, despite the efforts of over past fifteen Vice Chancellors. This was the reality which Professor Simon Uchenna Ortuanya inherited when he assumed office on August 11, 2025, as the 16th Vice Chancellor of his Alma mater.
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 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 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.
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