Politics

We should also bear in mind that the renewed violence across the country is underpinned by corruption. There are many angles to this… All said, corruption remains a fact of life in Nigeria. True, Mr. […]

The presidency has reacted to a backlash by members of the senate committee on appropriation on the federal government’s social investment programmes. In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President, Laolu […]

With the promise of Change, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), ousted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), hitherto in power, in the 2015 general elections. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was not too lucky to stand […]

Nigerian former President Goodluck Jonathan “wasn’t aware” of any use of Cambridge Analytica by his party in the country’s elections, his spokesman said Thursday. The Nigerian government is probing claims that Cambridge Analytica, a British-based […]

The UK Guardian has released a video of how Cambridge Analytica allegedly sought to influence the 2015 presidential election. In the video, graphically violent images were used to portray President Muhammadu Buhari, then candidate of […]

Attaining age 90 in a country where life expectancy is 55 years is a monumental achievement. Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the great Awoist, nationalist, patriot, democrat, leader, ideologue and Afenifere chieftain, has, by the mercies of […]

There is a growing consensus among these groups that both the APC and the PDP are of no use, they have not yet identified an alternative political party that can engage the ruling party but […]

The federal government has set up a committee to investigate the activities of the data mining firm, Cambridge Analytica, during Nigeria’s general election in 2007 and 2015. The committee is to find out whether Cambridge […]

America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush). But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who […]

Just after wishing everyone a happy Easter on Sunday morning, President Trump sent three tweets that were decidedly not in the Christian spirit. In a span of 35 minutes, he threatened to blow up NAFTA […]

The African National Congress is the ruling party in South Africa. Although it has been in existence for more than a hundred years founded in 1912 to fight for African political and economic rights, it […]

The National Vice Chairman (South South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Hilliard Eta, yesterday, hinted that the party has no choice but to adopt President Muhammadu Buhari’s rejection of tenure extension for the […]

The Federal government yesterday named the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus; former national publicity secretary of the party, Olisah Metuh, Chairman of DAAR Communication, Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, among treasury looters […]

The Federal Government of Nigeria has released some names of officials of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that it said looted the treasury while the party was in power. The government was responding to […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the list of alleged “looters” published by the federal government as “hollow and laughable.” PREMIUM TIMES published the list released by the information minister, Lai Mohammed, earlier on […]

Like medieval potentates who fiddled around while their empires were in the grip of mortal perils, President Muhammadu Buhari has since lost the capacity to resolve for us the question of whether our nation is […]

Our politicians are already in top gear, posturing and promising absurdities, to grab the electorate’s attention and votes as the 2019 general elections train steams rapidly to the campaign station. So, three years after losing […]

Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday declared his intention to run for president in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Abubakar announced his candidacy in Port Harcourt, the Rivers […]