Tribune Newspaper Headlines Today Sunday 2nd August 2026
Tribune Newspaper Headlines Today and news Dailies Update on current affairs happening now in Nigeria today 02/08/26
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target=_blank>2027 presidency: What are the running mates bringing to the tickets?
As the January 16, 2027, presidential race takes shape, the running mates chosen by each candidate reveal as much about their tickets’ weaknesses as their strengths. PHILIP IBITOYE x-rays the antecedents, political capital and vulnerabilities of the vice-presidential picks across the field, concluding that some of the presidential running mates are more than merely filling
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target=_blank>We stooled blood, slept in the open, our children went naked for days
Oriire Local Government’s teachers, students and children, recently rescued from terrorists, shared more gruesome experiences they endured in captivity. The rescued kidnapped teachers and pupils in Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State are still recounting their experiences during their 56 days in captivity. Even though the victims sometimes try to block out their memories,
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target=_blank>NAOSS disowns 72-hour ultimatum to Odeda LG chair over Camp-Osiele road
The National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS) has distanced itself from a purported 72-hour ultimatum reportedly issued to the Chairman of Odeda Local Government, Hon (Dr) Waliat Folasade Adeyemo, over the poor condition of the Camp-Osiele Road. In a statement signed by its National President, Comrade Olubodun Olalekan Opeyemi, the association described the group
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target=_blank>The President’s Silk cigarettes and all that
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, grabbed the headlines recently. In a sensational repertoire, he alleged that Nigerian President Bola Tinubu was “an unhealthy man” who, at the drop of a hat, junkets to French hospices. Lawal was not done. In the headline-grabbing interview, among other allegations, he claimed that
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target=_blank>Xenophobia and the abandonment of foreign policy…
IF anyone should ask me now what is the centrepiece of Nigeria’s foreign policy, I am afraid I will not be able to coherently and confidently offer a response! This is despite the fact that I read – and still read – Political Science, teach it, and was a Foreign Affairs correspondent for two reputable
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target=_blank>Osun Police: Dee Dee Mirawo
THE off-season governorship election in Osun State, scheduled for 15 August, already resembles a state of war. Guns are booming, and deaths are being counted in a place where ideas about good governance ought to be on parade at town-hall meetings and campaign grounds. It is all about the boo ba o pa, boo ba
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target=_blank>Badejo-Okusanya: Again, S/West gets into unwanted dispute
PENULTIMATE weekend’s win of the Nigerian Bar Association’s presidency by Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, is the third consecutive time her South-West zone would be saddled with an unwanted dispute over the representative at the helm of the lawyers’ body. And this time, it hits closer home considering that the disfavoured one is also Yoruba. That sounds
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target=_blank>Don’t believe everything you think: When your mind plays tricks on you
Have you ever sent someone a message, watched the two blue ticks appear, and then… nothing? Minutes turned into hours. Hours turned into a day. Before long, your mind had already written an entire story. “I must have offended them.” “Maybe they are avoiding me.” “Did I say something wrong?” Then, a day later, your
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target=_blank>“Who build dis gada?” and other stories
For Nigerians old enough to remember the 1990s, the phrase “Who build dis gada here?” was proudly hung on Brigadier General Raji Rasaki as his lasting moniker. A former military governor of Ogun, Ondo, and Lagos States, Brigadier Rasaki acquired this viral nickname in the aftermath of an on-site inspection of public works in Lagos.
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target=_blank>How I managed self-doubt, earned PhD at 27—Babcock’s best Mass Comm doctoral graduate
Dr Moyin P. Ajayi recently graduated as the overall best PhD student in Mass Communication at Babcock University, earning the highest cumulative grade point average (CGPA) in her department and completing the doctorate at just 27 years old. A three-time alumna of the university, she combines academic excellence with professional leadership as Head of Public
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