IN a space of one week, U.S. Republican law makers in Congress acted most disrespectfully to President Barack Obama in particular, and the White House in general. First, it was Speaker John Boehner’s undiplomatic snub […]
THE clock is ticking.The political atmosphere is turbo-charged.It’s barely ten days to March 28,the much-awaited Presidential election day in Nigeria.Even though elections to the National Assembly(Senate and House of Representatives) hold same day,the world’s attention […]
Going into the presidential election scheduled tentatively for March 28 – tentatively because he and his proxies, sensing defeat, are doing everything conceivable and even inconceivable to scuttle or sabotage it — Dr Goodluck Jonathan […]
Attahiru Jega, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, and Nigeria’s 11th chief electoral umpire, is the latest demon on the political horizon. But he is a demon with a difference — at least from the […]
There had been no little or no petrol in the country’s petrol stations for five months. The president was missing – and had been for months. The country was drifting aimlessly, on the brink. The […]
As part of his whistle stop campaign visits to Yoruba monarchs to drum up support for his second (third?) term ambition, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been to many palaces across Yoruba land than ordinarily […]
A group, the Buhari Volunteer Network, yesterday denied insinuation by the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) that the All Progressive Party presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, will collaborating with western nations to support […]
FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion, Mohammed Ali, had once remarked that a challenger needs to “whop the champion” if he wants to win the championship belt. He had made this remark following one of his […]
A commentator, Ahmed Salami, points out the danger of sacking the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, before the polls. The most frightening and disturbing controversy since the build-up to […]
Frontline political activist, Yinka Odumakin in this no-holds-barred interview with SENIOR CORRESPONDENT,DAILY INDEPENDENT, TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, speaks on his encounter with Afenifere, formation of Afenifere Renewal Group and how a former Secretary- General of Afenifere almost landed […]
It is quite unfortunate that despite the overwhelming public outrage over his alleged key role in the Ekiti election rigging scandal, the Nigerian Senate has gone ahead to approve the appointment of Musiliu Obanikoro for […]
The Nigerian Civil War ended on January 15, 1970. Naturally, Nigerian soldiers occupied every part of Igbo land and used school premises as their make-shift barracks. Less malnourished young men were suspected to be defunct […]
“You can’t prove deeds with words”. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Although the dictionary included dishonesty among the definitions of corruption, President Jonathan had insisted that it is only stealing. I fully accept his definition of what happens […]
Without doubt, I have a dog in this fight. As the spokesperson for DStv, there should be no garlands for guessing the dog I am backing. Like everybody else, I have followed the public response […]
Jonathan’s re-election will strengthen Nigeria’s unity’ Mr. Peter Obi, the Deputy Director of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation (South) is a former governor of Anambra State. He was in Lagos on Friday and fielded questions from […]
News reports have it that the mock election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 12 states last Saturday, using Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) and Card Reader Machines (CRMs), was ‘substantially’ […]
Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Chukwuemeka Uche, is known for his outspokenness. In this interview with Senior Correspondent, ARAMIDE OIKELOME, he airs his views on the postponement of the general elections, the clamour for […]
The past few weeks have seen Nigeria seething with rumours and plots of interim government, many of them quite fanciful and far-fetched, and a few somewhat plausible. The plots proceeded from the palpable fear that […]
This is why I am appealing to the APC to instruct all its agents to ascertain that only INDELIBLE, as opposed to VANISHING INK, is supplied for use In the case of Afenifere that has […]
The string of successes recorded by the Nigerian military forces in clearing Boko Haram insurgents from towns they occupy in some states of the North East region of the country is heart-warming. Last Friday, the […]
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