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Fashola at 57: My journey to Lagos governorship

The minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola explains in this interview how…

Throwback: Why I Dumped Abiola- Baba Gana Kingibe

  Today is 12 June. The subject that has resurfaced in the country, Covid -19…

Abiola’s Last Interview With TheNEWS: “Why IBB Left Abacha Behind”

Ademola Adegbamigbe By the time the late Chief MKO Abiola was fighting to retrieve his…

Umaru Yar’Adua’s 10th Memorial: Politics The Cabal Played With His Health

On Tuesday, 5 May, 2020, Nigerians remembered former President Umaru Yar’Adua, who died 10 years…

Flashback/My Coup Story: Diya Speaks from Jail

The story you are about to read is to commemorate the World Press Freedom Day.…

From the Archives: Why I Dumped Abiola- Baba Gana Kingibe

Babagana Kingibe jumped ship after the June 12, 1993 election was annulled and even went…

Throwback: Fela’s prison interview with TheNEWS in 1993

  The late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the Afrobeat legend, lived from 15 October 1938 to…

Flashback: Day  Biafrans shot Obasanjo in the buttocks- Gen Alabi Isama

General Alabi Isama was the Chief of Staff in the 3rd Marine Commando during the…

From the Archives: How to Move Nigeria Forward – General Alani Akinrinade

  General Alani Ipoola Akinrinade is 80 years old. Yet, he does not look it.…

Tinubu’s 68th birthday: What he told TheNEWS about his rugged start in life

    Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is 68 years old today, Sunday, 29 March. He was…