Politics

The police wielded the big stick on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday on account of the protracted leadership crisis rocking the opposition party. Police Inspector General Solomon Arase ordered the office complex that houses the […]

A former Chairman of the United States House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra, has flayed President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for the way Nigeria is being run. In an opinion article he wrote on Thursday in the […]

Donald Trump didn’t mince words Friday as he addressed the Orlando terrorist attack, referring to the gunman as a “son of a b—-” and arguing that guns in civilian hands could have mitigated the carnage. […]

The Clinton Foundation has accepted millions from Middle Eastern and other foreign governments that criminalize homosexuality – but prominent gay rights groups in America have stayed silent on the apparent disconnect between Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric […]

The Peoples Democratic Party currently cuts the image of the most abominable slice of the Nigerian politician. Incurably selfish, egoistic and deficient in graciousness, top members of the PDP had in the past couple of […]

I overheard a lady saying to her colleague that she prefers Jonathan’s corruption to Buhari’s change. Needless to say I was sad and felt very bad that this lady does not understand what the present […]

June 8, 1998. It was the day the tyrant fell, cut down by the great leveler; humbled by the eternal satirical truth that cannot be hindered by the flourish of the bayonet or dissuaded by […]

The leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) escalated yesterday as an army of angry youths stormed the party’s headquarters. Armed with placards and leafy tree branches, the youths, who arrived at the secretariat […]

A congressional push to ban or restrict gun sales for those on terror watch lists gained bipartisan momentum Wednesday, with everyone from key Republican lawmakers to Donald Trump to the National Rifle Association opening the […]

IN one sense the news that President Muhammadu Buhari plans to impose travel restriction on Ayodele Fayose and Nyesom Wike, respectively governors of Ekiti and Rivers states, seems to have come from nowhere. It simply […]

Hillary Clinton is facing Republican criticism for seeming to take a sharper tone on terrorism as she leaves the primary race behind – not only in her willingness to invoke the term “radical Islamism,” but […]

After years of brushing off criticism for avoiding the term “radical Islam,” President Obama fired a point-blank broadside Tuesday at his critics, calling the debate a “political distraction” that will do nothing to combat terrorism. […]

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race has narrowed since late last week, according to the results of the first Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted since the Orlando shooting rampage on Sunday. Trump, […]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal for suspending immigration from parts of the world with a history of terrorism could have a legal basis, but his assertion that it be part of a broader ban […]

There can be no end in the foreseeable future to a do-or-die fight to become President of our nation.  The unbridled struggle for the position of top dog has generally been motivated by the prospect […]

In a democracy, every citizen participates in policymaking through decentralised systems, periodic elections, feedback processes, referendums, legislative fiscal oversight and, importantly, uncomplicated impeachment and recall processes. But, as our continuing discussion on the Hierarchy of […]

President of the Senate and Chairman of National Assembly Bukola Saraki should be congratulated on his first anniversary in the powerful positions. It has been a stormy year in office for him, and it promises […]

Most Nigerians, rightly or wrongly, trod on the war path when David Cameron, in the full glare of cameras, blurted out to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II of England and His Lordship, the Archbishop of […]

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called the shooting in Orlando, Florida, “an act of terror” that requires the nation to “redouble” efforts to stop similar attacks.