Politics

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 […]

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has begun formally vetting prospective vice presidential picks. The New York billionaire is considering former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, among what he previously […]

Factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has warned that the crisis rocking the party may prolong till 2019. He said there were signs that the courts might not be […]

Hillary Clinton begins this month with $44 million in cash to continue hammering Donald Trump in the race for the White House. The presumptive Democratic nominee raised $40.5 million in June. Her campaign announced the […]

Hedge fund manager Marc Mezvinsky had friends in high places when he bet big on a Greek economic recovery, but even the keen interest of his mother-in-law, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, wasn’t enough to […]

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican Donald Trump has dipped into the single digits among likely U.S. voters for the first time in nearly two weeks, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on […]

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, seeking to tamp down a firestorm over meeting with former President Bill Clinton, said on Friday she will accept the recommendations of career prosecutors and the FBI director on whether […]