Issues/Policy

POLITICIANS are suddenly awake. The smartest beings in existence think it is time they said a few words to the Nigerians. Power belongs to the people, it is time to wrest it from them democratically. […]

Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Prof. Ade Adefuye, on Tuesday described an editorial published by the New York Times on the postponement of the general elections in the country as “biased and ignorant”, adding […]

Mr President Sir, I must thank you for having the courage and the cleverness to tell all your predecessors in office that you truly are in charge and that their time is past. You are […]

Joseph Okoloagu,  a retired Brigadier General, is a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) Board of Trustees. He is the senatorial candidate of APC in Enugu North senatorial zone for the rescheduled general elections. In […]

The gubernatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress in Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has promised to ensure that political appointees and top civil servants enrol their children in public schools if elected governor. Mr. El-Rufai, who […]

Strong winds are raging against the credibility of the coming general elections, following reports of moves by some unscrupulous politicians to stop the plan by INEC to use Smart Card Readers to determine the genuineness, […]

At a public lecture delivered at the Chatham House in London last month, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki disclosed that he had “advised” the Independent National Electoral Commission to postpone the election. […]

A mixture of relief and raging indignation swept through the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, after former President Olusegun Obasanjo publicly tore his membership card of the ruling party. Obasanjo’s theatrical renunciation […]

The Nigerian government was supposed to hold presidential elections this past weekend, which presented voters with the dispiriting choice of keeping a lousy incumbent or returning to power a former autocratic leader. Now they will […]

A William Adams quote has recently gone viral. It reminds that: ‘There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When […]

NIGERIANS may have borne the insult with admirable equanimity, even with some hope that something good would be the outcome of their long wait and delay. But let Professor Attahiru Jega and the Independent National […]

During the tenure of Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria’s Head of State from 1966 to 1975, the two best friends of Nigeria were Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1892-1975) “power of the trinity” and Hamani Diori (1916-1989) the […]

The forthcoming presidential elections in Nigeria are starting to make me feel as if my country is preparing for war. I want Nigeria to enter a new phase in our emerging democracy, but judging by […]

I got a birthday present recently. It was both unique and peculiar on one hand, but on the other, was dejavu, journey down a familiar road. In its essence it showed how a mute conspiracy […]

Reports of the visit of the Special Representative of the Secretary General to West Africa to Abuja indicate that the United Nations had offered Nigeria the peacekeeping platform of the global organisation. The platform has […]

With the opening of the window for political activities by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) late last year, our nation has become largely divided along partisan lines, with two gigantic political parties belligerently charging […]

Femi Falana, a renowned Nigerian lawyer and activist, told SaharaTV during an exclusive interview that he is not surprised at the recent claims by former Minister of Defense Musiliu Obanikoro of suing SaharaReporters and Premium […]

Many people think that this election is all about PDP and APC, or between Buhari and Jonathan. I beg to disagree. This election, in my view, is between the people and the politicians. Many have […]

A former Managing Director of Nigeria Breweries Plc and immediate past Chairman of the National Population Commission, Festus Odimegwu, has written a lengthy article endorsing the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, […]