Politics

From its parliamentary-style origins under the colonial government to today’s presidential style, Nigeria’s National Assembly has almost always failed its duties as a legislature. The work of the legislature is simple: (i) to legislate; and […]

SINCE the appointment of Acting Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, analysts, politicians and columnists from the Southeast have been exasperated with President Muhammadu Buhari over his seeming deliberateness in disregarding and excluding Igbo representation […]

When I woke up on Friday morning last week to the news that the British had voted to leave the European Union, I immediately thought of the pained reaction of a British colleague when I […]

Not since Abacha has the North so completely dominated all the three arms of the Nigerian government. The amalgamation, by fiat, of the Southern  and Northern parts of Nigeria was done based largely  on  a […]

Nigeria, the country bequeathed us by the British colonialists, is beset with problems most of which are attributable to incompetent leadership. In their legitimate quest for positive change, Nigerians voted in large numbers for the […]

Comedies are probably the best channels of effectively transmitting messages to a number of people. Unlike the media that concentrate more on information and education, which many people in a recession hardly patronize, the comedian […]

To know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom. What is more is fume.” John Milton, 1608-1674. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 275). Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s first year in […]

Let us think of the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate as, like a co-pilot. His hands are on the same lever with the president of the senate, navigating the nation through the storms of […]

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Femi Falana, on Saturday called the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to face the forgery charges preferred against them rather than politicising them. Falana […]

Donald Trump on Saturday deleted a tweet critical of Hillary Clinton after he came under fire for evoking anti-Semitic stereotypes with a graphic that included dollar bills and a six-pointed star. Before deleting the original […]

Huddled around a corner table during happy hour at the swanky St. Regis Hotel bar in downtown Washington, five young Republicans busily brainstormed how they could help Hillary Clinton become the next president of the […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for three and a half hours on Saturday as part of the probe into her use of a private email server while serving […]

Donald Trump said Saturday that he’s filled all of the speaker slots for the fast-approaching Republican National Convention — trying to capitalize on rival Hillary Clinton’s tough week and stop talk about key GOP figures […]

I understand Mr Rauf Aregbesola, the Osun State Governor is Ijesha. I don’t know if he spent his early years in Ilesha like I did. I also don’t know if he attended any primary school in […]

Quite honestly, I truly understand some senators’ riotous hysteria over what they consider sacrilegious charges brought against Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu at an Abuja High Court. In a society where […]

Former French president, General Charles De Gaulle, must be smiling mockingly in his grave. Twice between 1961 and 1969, he opposed British membership of what was then the European Economic Commission for two reasons. One, […]

The implication…is that no Senator can before or at the first sitting influence the procedure or the rules to be used. The Senators as at that time are inchoate. They are still Senators-elect with no […]