Former U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Tuesday endorsed Donald Trump for president, saying he was swayed by Trump’s list of possible Supreme Court nominees. Santorum, who dropped out of the presidential race in […]
Democrat Hillary Clinton, seeking to dampen Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s growing appeal with working-class voters, on Tuesday accused him of having cheered on the 2008 housing market crash. Clinton’s campaign released an ad with […]
Donald Trump this week took his use of sordid accusations against Democrat Hillary Clinton to levels unprecedented in modern U.S. presidential campaigns, in the latest example of the Republican’s unorthodox playbook. The presumptive Republican nominee […]
A Russian billionaire whose business partner is a close ally of Vladimir Putin, the former chairman of a defunct Nigerian bank and a Kyrgyz vodka tycoon appear to be among more than 130 foreign buyers […]
Nigeria’s overdependence on oil is one reality that President Buhari’s government has to grapple with if it will survive the crash in the global oil prices. The good news is that every challenge posed to […]
A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Abubakar Lawal Yar’Adua, bought a posh home worth £890,000 in London using a secret offshore company he registered in the British Virgin Island. […]
The Minister for Information and Culture with the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Monday, said the Federal Government is considering opening a robust dialogue with the Niger-Delta militants on the need to […]
These are perilous times for President Muhammadu Buhari and the country’s 36 state governors. In fact, some will argue that this is not a good time to be president or governor in Nigeria. Already, about […]
“(I )f we are interested in bringing the violence to a stop, we should be interested not just in crime and punishment but, more so, in political reform.” —Mahmood Mamdani On Thursday, February 25, 2016, […]
At the end of a visit some 15 years ago for a conference in Abuja that was going to stretch into a two-week stay in Nigeria, I learned from U.S. Embassy officials, horror of horrors, […]
Caveat Emptor: Ripples believes in the Buhari Presidency; and feels structural pains are inevitable to wean us from the degeneracy of the Obasanjo-Jonathan Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) era. So, this is no “wailing wailer”, bleating […]
Dear Sir, I am writing you this letter hoping it will provoke an urgent reaction from you thereby saving our education system from further decay. A situation brought about by poor policy decisions that have […]
In spite of the huge national outcry in the wake of the Ese Oruru saga, it appears that Nigeria is still unable to deal with the patently criminal offence of abducting young girls, holding them […]
Though this might be about the PDP, but still it is not about the party. It is about the overriding tendency within the party, and historical antecedence. With the state of the nation and the […]
At its March 21-22, 2016 meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) “charged the apex bank to speed up the comprehensive reform of the foreign exchange market which is currently being undertaken” with a view to […]
THIS headline reminds me of a similar question that late Ronald Reagan asked American voters when he was seeking their mandate in the 1980 presidential elections. Reagan was the Republican presidential candidate against the incumbent […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced the source of the $40million paid to Roberts Azibaola, who is former President Goodluck Jonathan’s cousin, to a bank in London. The cash was wired through […]
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos yesterday ordered the remand of a former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for three weeks. […]
Louis van Gaal has been sacked as manager of Manchester United, the club have confirmed. Sky sources believe the Dutchman was informed on Sunday night he would no longer be in charge of the club, […]
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