Politics

…whether we are able to muster the political will to transcend our collective limitations or not, we need the critical mass of empathetic scholars and intellectuals to at least facilitate our concerted march towards national […]

A leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, has advised federal lawmakers to come up with legislation that would help in promoting the country’s diversity for prosperity. Mr. Tinubu made the call when […]

Sam Amadi, former chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), says ex-President Goodluck Jonathan did not order the reversal of electricity tariff in 2014. In the build-up to the 2015 general election, the commission […]

Ayo Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, says he went to the supreme court with the mindset to set ablaze his membership card if Ali Modu Sheriff had been declared chairman of the party. The apex […]

It’s pretty simple. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not dead! Like a specialist performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the three-man panel of judges at the Supreme Court, led by chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, […]

Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says the Goodluck Jonathan-led government reversed electricity tariff “to win electoral votes”. He said the privatisation of the country’s power sector was delivered with “some deception”. Fashola […]

Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos, says his state never received any part of the ecological fund from the administration of ex-president Goodluck Jonathan “due to political consideration”. The governor said his government is willing to […]

Nigeria is so ‘serious’ a nation that satire is as bad a ‘crime’ as treason. Counting the torrents of condemnation against Mrs. Aisha Buhari’s harmless satirical comment to the satirical post of Senator Shehu Sani, […]

Ademola Adeleke has been sworn in as the senator representing Osun west senatorial district. Adeleke took his oath of office administered by Bukola Saraki, senate president, on the floor of the red chamber on Wednesday. […]

The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Monday directed the Clerk, Sanni Azeez, to write a protest letter to the Senate over a comment by a senator, Danjuma Goje. This followed a […]

Last week again witnessed another scene in the appalling show between our dear senators and the presidency. Presidency, in this instance, is used solely to mean the office of the acting president, as there are […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Presidency cabal is in a state of dilemma as to whether to bring President Muhammadu Buhari back to the […]

Last week, the dented Senate President, Bukola Saraki, flew a kite, and it was a dangerous kite in every sense of it. If we were in a military government, Saraki and his hirelings would have […]

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, President Muhammadu Buhari has become a “bad business for the cabal that imposed him” on the country. In a statement on Monday, the governor known to be very critical […]

The 2014 humiliating loss in Ekiti to the Peoples Democratic Party was the jolt the All Progressive Congress, which held sway in all the states in the South-west except Ondo, needed to snap awake from […]

Before now, the people seemed to be either ignorant of the power in their hands or simply refused to exploit it. Kogi West, therefore, is a crucial test for our fledgling democracy. It is a […]

EKITI State governor, Ayodele Fayose, yesterday in Benin declared that Nigerians made a grave mistake by voting President Muhammadu Buhari into office saying that the president had reached a stage of diminishing return when he […]