Commentaries

Ahmadu Fintiri is the governor of Adamawa State. At the twilight of 2025, he stole the hearts of many. He gave full pardon to Citizen Sunday Jackson, an Adamawa farmer,...

  Muhammadu Buhari I am currently researching and writing an independent biography of Muhammadu Buhari – a project I commenced in April 2024 – and I recognise that this places...

Prof Chidi Odinkalu   “All judges are politicians whether they know it or not.” - Enrique Petracchi, former Chief Justice of Argentina, (2002). Among lawyers trained in the traditions of the...

  This accomplished scholar, university administrator and public servant has left behind huge, definitive legacies, writes MONDAY PHILIPS EKPE   Professor Adamu Baikie Aoiri Obaigbo, a distinguished alumnus of the...

Dan Agbese The first time I heard of Newswatch magazine was in 1986. I was then in SS1. One of our auxiliary teachers who handled Literature-in-English, Mr. Job Okonkwo, walked...

Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) I read with an interchange of intense pleasure and intense pain, the insightful lecture which the much decorated Lt Gen (Rtd) Abdulrahman Dambazau delivered on the...

Dan Agbese There are two things I avoid when people I adore die: I don’t write tributes and I avoid their burial. Twice in the last few years I have...

Bello Matawalle It’s all too obvious that Bello Matawalle, the Minister of State for Defence, is one of the most misunderstood public officials in the country. He was governor of...

  Godswill Akpabio, President of the Senate Nigeria is a country that produces noise faster than it produces true heroes. Politics here moves at a velocity that forgives very little...

Akpabio is not perfect, never laid claim to such. But he is true to himself. Like all mortals, he rises, he falls and picks himself up again. This tribute is...