Politics

As an African nay Nigerian living in one of Britain’s former colonies, the toxic Brexit debate which at its anti-climatic frenzy had become so extremely controversial that it had divided Britons along vociferous eurosceptics and […]

Court grants Senate President, Ekweremadu, ex-Clerk, Dep. Clerk bail The gloves were off yesterday. Senate President Bukola Saraki, who is facing trial for alleged forgery of the Senate Rules, accused the Executive of being the […]

The political turmoil in Britain escalated Monday as several additional high-ranking members of the opposition Labor Party resigned in protest of its leader Jeremy Corbyn’s failure to prevent his nation’s decision to leave the European […]

An additional 165 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department surfaced Monday, including nearly three dozen that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee failed to hand over last year that were sent through her private server. […]

Britain’s Conservative 1922 Committee executive has agreed that the forthcoming Tory leadership race should follow the same rules as the 2005 election which saw David Cameron elected. That would mean nominations opening on Wednesday evening, […]

Britons trying to hang onto EU citizenship have inundated Ireland’s embassy in London and post offices in British-run Northern Ireland with passport enquiries and requests for application forms, the Irish foreign office said on Monday. […]

Liberal Elizabeth Warren attacked Republican Donald Trump on Monday during her first campaign appearance with U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, calling him an “insecure money grubber” who is driven by greed and hate. Warren, […]

The Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has annulled the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, the News Agency of Nigeria is reporting. The court also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to […]

The serious issue, however, is whether these tectonic forces in the UK are also shaping the American political landscape, making a Trump victory in November more likely. After all, virtually no-one thought Trump would capture […]

Twice he wanted to make it not about himself. Twice it inevitably became his show. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s birthday of June 14 was billed as an onslaught on cancer. But it became the effort of […]

Republicans are sprinting to shape up Donald Trump’s presidential campaign before the party’s national convention in three weeks, even as leading members of the party carry a deep antipathy or outright opposition to his claim […]

Two new polls released Sunday show Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton widening her lead over presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump — with one national survey giving her a comfortable double-digit cushion. A Washington Post/ABC News […]

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign accused Donald Trump on Sunday of caring more about how Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union would benefit his financial bottom line than how it would impact the U.S. […]

To leave, or not to leave: that is the question. Still. After Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union, there is no indication that a so-called Brexit will happen soon. It maybe never will. […]

If anything, most citizens perceive themselves as being dropped into hot water by those they have elected into office and thus feel compelled to jump out before they are killed. We tend not to seek […]

Nigerian politics is a study in melodrama.  Our leaders focus on short-term solutions and we, the people, focus on short-term problems. One of such short-term problems is Mr. Ayo Fayose. Like Mr. Rotimi Amaechi under […]

Top officials of the National Assembly are already trading blames over the alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Orders/Rules 2015 ahead of the expected arraignment of Senate President   Bukola Saraki, his Deputy Chief Ike Ekweremadu […]

Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States has been a central issue of his campaign — but he has described the ban differently in the weeks since the mass shooting in Orlando. […]

As the European Union’s founding nations rushed to an emergency meeting Saturday to consider their future, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government reportedly fears the United Kingdom could be just the first of several nations to pull […]