Politics

Barack Obama has cautioned Donald Trump against allowing relations with China to slip into “full conflict mode” after the president-elect put Beijing’s nose out of joint with a succession of controversial pre-inauguration foreign policy interventions. […]

Twenty years before Vladimir Putin began his ingenious campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, his predecessor as Russia’s president stood on a dark street near the White House. In his underpants. Looking for a […]

Earlier today, Donald Trump met with a who’s who of tech industry leaders in a summit at New York City’s Trump Tower to discuss how they can work together in his new presidential administration. A […]

And our challenge is to confront the hypocrisy in our national ideals The popularity of radical anti-immigrant nationalism in Europe, from Britain to Russia, and in the United States—the recent defeat of a right-wing candidate […]

(CNN)By selecting ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, Donald Trump on Tuesday guaranteed that his four most influential departments will, if confirmed, be led entirely by white males for the first […]

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Mohammed Lawal, says a national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will only leave the party if President Muhammadu Buhari quits the ruling party. Lawal, who […]

Russia’s alleged hacking of the US election in favour of Donald Trump was “the political equivalent of 9/11”, according to the former acting director of the CIA. The spy agency said on Friday it had […]

We believe that only one person can emerge as the winner. And while it is true that only one person can be elected president, in reality, and certainly in a democracy such as ours, every […]

The NPP campaign programme was effective but at the end of the day, Akufo-Addo did not win the elections, John Mahama lost it. Ghana’s electoral geography is well known and there are swing districts that […]

The Gambia’s president Yahya Jammeh has rejected the outcome of last week’s election, which he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow, and called for a fresh vote. The announcement made on state TV on Friday […]

South Korean lawmakers on Friday voted overwhelmingly to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal. Members of parliament voted by secret ballot with 234 in favour and 56 opposed, meaning dozens of members of […]

It is no longer news that our major political parties are in active disarray, featuring rival factions which work against one another at elections. The divisions in the Peoples Democratic Party, which have defied several […]

I don’t subscribe to the psychiatric test. I don’t see corruption as a mental illness. I see it as a social malady. What is sick about our society is our culture. Let us also admit […]

Plans for the formation of a mega party are creating increasing dissonance within the two major political parties in the country with eyes turning on Senate President, Bukola Saraki, as the beautiful bride of the […]

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El Rufai, raised some dust when he confessed that he spent government money to pay Fulani herdsmen to stop violence in southern Kaduna. The assertion was made by the government […]