Politics

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she was confident voters would make the “right decision” despite concerns over findings by an internal government watchdog that her use of a private email server while […]

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders on Thursday explored staging an unconventional U.S. presidential debate that would sideline Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and create a television spectacle that could attract huge ratings. The two […]

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to roll back some of America’s most ambitious environmental policies, actions that he said would revive the ailing U.S. oil and coal industries and bolster […]

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign announced Wednesday night that it had parted ways with its national political director Rick Wiley just a few months after he was hired. Trump’s campaign said in a statement that Wiley’s […]

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Wednesday on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that he would be happy to take on Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders in a debate before the California primary. […]

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump admitted Wednesday to using aliases during his business career, but denied posing as his own spokesman in a recently-released recording. “You know, over the years I’ve used aliases,” Trump […]

Hillary Clinton broke government rules by using a private email server without approval for her work as U.S. secretary of state, an internal government watchdog said on Wednesday. The long-awaited report by the State Department […]

Formed in 1998 by a Group of 18 and later 34 Eminent Personalities which cut across different elite class – military, business, political, bureaucratic, the political association known as the Institute of Civil Society was […]

Last week, legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), made a case for confederation as a solution to Nigeria’s political and socio-economic problems. He made the case at […]

The hope raised in London the other day when world leaders pledged to make corruption a top priority and take necessary actions to prevent the scourge from festering in governments, institutions, businesses and communities all […]

In another four days, it will be exactly one year since the winner of the 2015 presidential election, Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was sworn into office. Buhari’s inauguration as President on […]

Protesters lit fires, smashed a door and threw rocks outside a Donald Trump rally Tuesday night in New Mexico — the latest scuffle to follow the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign. The scene outside Albuquerque’s convention […]

Former U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Tuesday endorsed Donald Trump for president, saying he was swayed by Trump’s list of possible Supreme Court nominees. Santorum, who dropped out of the presidential race in […]

Democrat Hillary Clinton, seeking to dampen Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s growing appeal with working-class voters, on Tuesday accused him of having cheered on the 2008 housing market crash. Clinton’s campaign released an ad with […]

Donald Trump this week took his use of sordid accusations against Democrat Hillary Clinton to levels unprecedented in modern U.S. presidential campaigns, in the latest example of the Republican’s unorthodox playbook. The presumptive Republican nominee […]

Though this might be about the PDP, but still it is not about the party. It is about the overriding tendency within the party, and historical antecedence. With the state of the nation and the […]

After lifting a decades long embargo against Vietnam on Monday, President Barack Obama worked up quite the appetite, dining with celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain in Hanoi. Bourdain, who hosts the popular food-meets-travel show “Parts Unknown,” […]

Bernie Sanders predicted Monday that the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia could be “messy” as he pushed the party to adopt his progressive agenda, but added, “Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle.” […]

Hillary Clinton, the front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, turned down on Monday an invitation by Fox News to debate rival Bernie Sanders in California, despite having agreed previously to a debate […]