Politics

About three months ago, Sarah Ibrahim’s son came home from his fourth-grade class at a Maryland school with a disturbing question. “Will I have time to say goodbye to you before you’re deported?” he said, […]

Donald J. Trump has fired his divisive campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, a move that comes as the presumptive Republican nominee faces challenges as he heads into the general election.

What is the link between Muhammad Ali and the new call to restructure Nigeria? Not Ali’s rope-a-dope, not the flourish of his poesy, or the beastly beauty of his stalking and punching, or the balletic […]

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN); a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Niyi Akintola, and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, have condemned the proposed life pension and immunity for National Assembly leaders. While […]

House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan is trying to keep fellow Republicans in control of Congress but said Sunday he wouldn’t ask them to endorse Donald Trump for the sake of party unity, to save their […]

If the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming days decides a high-profile immigration case in favor of the Obama administration, the ruling could have an unexpected beneficiary: Republican presidential contender Donald Trump. The Obama administration […]

My Dear Asiwaju, I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a […]

Republican Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States should consider more racial profiling, in response to a question about whether he supported greater law enforcement scrutiny of Muslim Americans after the Orlando mass shooting. […]

On Saturday before last, Saturday Punch carried a noteworthy interview of Senator Femi Okurounmu regarding President Muhammadu Buhari’s performance. Okurounmu’s views were expectedly partisan. What would one expect of a Peoples Democratic Party loyalist and […]

Of course, the Hobbesian state of nature is a hypothetical scenario invented by Hobbes to anchor his theory concerning the origin of civil society. But it might become real in Nigeria if the federal government […]

We need an impartial  body  that  would proffer  genuine ways  to  properly reconfigure Nigeria  from what it presently is – a totally unworkable and, therefore, not working  ‘geographical expression’ as Chief Obafemi Awolowo called it. […]

On the whole, nothing had significantly changed about Rotimi Amaechi. He was still himself; unable to contract his expansive ego onto a back seat and listen to others speak sensibly in Uyo last week. He […]

This article is a response to Dele Momodu’s article titled “Before They Mislead President Buhari”. The article like most of the writer’s recent articles is a subtle castigation of Buhari’s administration and support for the […]

A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Samuel Ikon (Etinam/Nsit Ibom/Nsit Ubium, Cross River) alleged to have requested hotel parking attendants in a US hotel to solicit prostitute for him said yesterday that his […]

The Donald Trump campaign on Saturday released its first “emergency” fund-raising email, in response to an ad blitz from the Hillary Clinton campaign. “Right now we’re facing an emergency goal of $100,000 to help get […]

Some senators on Saturday demanded immunity and life pension for presiding officers of the National Assembly after their tenure in office. They made the proposals at a-two day retreat on Constitution Review organised by the […]

Mr. Godwin Obaseki has won the Edo State gubernatorial primary of the All Progressives Congress held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the state capital. Details later…

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she doesn’t want to be Donald Trump’s 2016 running mate. Rice, who was also a national security adviser in the Bush administration, frequently has been mentioned as a possible […]