Politics

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had narrowed his search for a vice presidential running mate down to four or five unnamed establishment politicians, including one former rival who has not endorsed […]

Winning over Bernie Sanders supporters who flocked to his insurgent presidential campaign will be the first and possibly toughest order of business for Hillary Clinton after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee this week. […]

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has considered the idea of serving as Hillary Clinton’s running mate but sees obstacles to that choice as she prepares to endorse the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, several people familiar with […]

The long running strident calls for “restructuring” the country, aka “true federalism,” received a big boost last week from two sources, one predictable and the other perhaps inadvertent. The inadvertent one was President Muhammadu Buhari’s […]

It is fatal in governance when the citizens begin to perceive or see their President as lying through his teeth. The earlier President Muhammadu Buhari knows this the better for him.It is increasingly becoming the […]

The Associated Press news agency has been criticised for declaring Hillary Clinton the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for the 2016 US presidential election. Clinton has 1,821 pledged delegates but the AP’s survey of so-called superdelegates […]

Donald Trump brushed aside the latest controversy over his remarks on a federal judge Tuesday night to deliver a broadside against Hillary Clinton — even promising to deliver a blockbuster speech on her next week […]

Will Obama’s involvement help the Democratic ticket? President Obama will meet with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders at the White House Thursday after Hillary Clinton wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday with a string of […]

A ruling by New York’s highest court in a fraud case against former American International Group Inc (AIG.N) Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg could affect the state’s case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and […]

Republican Donald Trump trails Democrat Hillary Clinton by 10 points in the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a poll released on Tuesday, showing little change from a week ago and suggesting his comments about a […]

President Muhammadu Buhari primarily based his presidential campaign on achieving three major goals: (1) to fight corruption; (2) to enhance national security; and (3) to revamp and diversify the economy. Of the four years he […]

Some 48 hours to the first anniversary of the Akinwunmi Ambode administration in Lagos, I chanced upon an online publication proudly announcing the latest ambition of the Centre of Excellence under its high-achieving helmsman: the […]

In the last one year since he began piloting the affairs of State, President Muhammadu Buhari has embarked on a two-pronged war – one against Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast, and another against those […]

‘I didn’t leave empty treasury for Buhari’ Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday defended his tenure, saying he fought corruption, but added that he is being investigated for graft by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. He also denied […]

Four central figures in the FBI’s criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email practices are all using the same lawyer, a move described as a “red flag” by a former U.S. attorney who now runs a […]

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday rejected a barrage of criticism from his own party over his allegations of bias against a Hispanic judge, insisting his concerns were valid. “All I want to […]

Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, according to tallies on Monday by two U.S. media outlets, the day before six states were set to vote […]

•Senate should accede to President’s request on passage of anti-corruption and other bills President Muhammadu Buhari’s appeal to the National Assembly to expedite the passage into law of some bills before the lawmakers is welcome. […]

AFTER one year of silence, Vice President Atiku Abubakar seized the opportunity of a book launch in Abuja last week to break his silence. He reviewed the state of the nation under President Muhammadu Buhari, […]

No fewer than 65 bills, sponsored by either the executive or lawmakers across the six geo- political zones of the country in the last one year, are at various stages of consideration in the current […]