Politics

This piece is a dialogue with Nigerian Leftists – and all those who feel they share essential attributes with Leftists (socialists and pro-people radical democrats) but for one reason or another, reject the “label” Leftists. […]

As the topic of this write-up sounds, I want to be a bit analytically numinous in order to drive home my massage. There is a very extraordinary mathematical equation in Nigerian politics of today which […]

Nigerian Senate President Bukola Saraki is considering running against President Muhammadu Buhari when Africa’s top oil producer holds elections in February. “I am consulting and actively considering it,” Saraki, 56, said Tuesday in an interview […]

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said that he is considering contesting the 2019 presidential election, adding that he believes he can “make the change.” Saraki, who stated this in an interview […]

…my campaign has been crisscrossing the globe in the past weeks… including Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Russia, China, Canada, etc. I can state unequivocally that the emerging consensus among these nations is […]

Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has told former President Olusegun Obasanjo to concentrate on his chicken and egg business, instead of criticising President Muhammadu Buhari. Obasanjo had recently addressed a […]

As the elections are approaching, local government workers are receiving better attention and some traditional rulers are bribed one way or another. As usual, the excuses for governmental failures will return when the elections are […]

In the last one month, Nigerians have witnessed the movement or abandonment by politicians of one political party for another. The reasons they give have ranged from impunity, inadequate reward, harassment and undemocratic impositions by […]

To reduce drug import, Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has called for a review of the curriculum on pharmacy, to ensure that pharmacists are trained to manufacture drugs. Speaking at the Nigerian […]

We have now had three-and-a-half years of APC rule. We have now seen what APC’s ‘change’ actually entails. We are no longer under any illusions. Even though the APC has spent the last few years […]

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday commended Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo for his intervention in the blockade of the National Assembly complex. Tinubu gave the commendation while addressing party members […]

Whatever its surface dissembling and false display of calmness at this time when members are jumping off its distressed ship, the underneath reality is that there is a burning hell in the belly of the […]

Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, calling former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a degenerate, liar, predator and sadist, has challenged him to swear whether he never awarded oil blocks in return for sexual gratification while he presided […]

I commend acting President Yemi Osinbajo for finding the courage to fire the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura, over last week’s attempted coup in the National Assembly. President Muhammadu Buhari was […]