Politics

Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said he will seek to return the death penalty, in his first comments to reporters since last week’s election. He added that he would also seek to give security forces shoot-to-kill […]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. –  President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly changing world by building walls around the United States or by embracing ignorance, as he […]

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton made campaign stops Sunday in Kentucky ahead the state’s primary later this week, pitching a pro-jobs agenda and trying to stop rival Sen. Bernie Sanders’ extended string of victories, as […]

WASHINGTON, 2016 – A top aide to Donald Trump said on Sunday he did not believe the Republican presidential front-runner posed as his own spokesman to brag about his personal life, a controversy that came […]

Billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson is reportedly willing to give Donald Trump as much as $100 million for his presidential campaign — a purported record-setting amount for the wealth casino magnate. Adelson pledged the amount […]

Mixed feelings about presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump were on full display Saturday at the Wisconsin GOP convention, with Gov. Scott Walker and other officeholders not even speaking his name. Those who did mention […]

Interviews with dozens of women who have worked for Donald Trump or interacted with him socially reveal a pattern of often unsettling personal behavior by the Republican presidential candidate, The New York Times reported on […]

‎ Doyin Okupe, former senior special assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on public affairs, has revealed that he kissed former President Olusegun Obasanjo at a meeting where both men reconciled. Okupe, who also worked under […]

Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos has restrained the Peoples Democratic Party from going ahead with its zonal congress in the South-West zone scheduled for May 14, 2016 (tomorrow). The PDP […]

The Senate is to debate fuel price increase next week. A source close to the leadership of the Senate said the debate “will afford senators to tell their constituents where they stand on the burning […]

A new set of State Department documents released Thursday by the watchdog group Judicial Watch reveal then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the choice not to use a secure phone line amid a technical problem […]

Donald Trump’s campaign is disavowing the real estate mogul’s former butler, after he posted to Facebook Thursday that he wants President Barack Obama to be killed. Anthony Senecal, who served as Trump’s butler for 17 […]

China is quite possibly Donald Trump’s favorite campaign-trail target. Earlier this month, the presumptive Republican nominee went as far as describing China’s trade relationship with the U.S. as “rape” and has repeatedly said China is […]

Donald Trump’s support has surged and he is now running nearly even with Democrat Hillary Clinton among likely U.S. voters, a dramatic turnaround since he became the Republican party’s presumptive presidential nominee, according to a […]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has now told field offices nationwide to launch a 30-day “surge” of arrests focused on mothers and children who have already been told to leave the United States, the document […]

Donald Trump’s foreign policy proposals would make the world a less stable place, former Secretary of State James Baker told a U.S. Senate hearing on Thursday as the Republican presidential candidate met elsewhere with party […]

One of the off record welcome hospitality that the Conservative Prime Minister of Britain, Mr. David Cameron, extended to President Muhammadu Buhari who attended the May 10 Anti-Corruption Summit in London is his sneaky remark […]

Today, most of us Nigerians live in poverty. About 70% of us are estimated to be living in “absolute poverty” – meaning that we are barely keeping alive with just about one U.S. dollar a […]

IN its Tuesday, May 3, 2016 edition, on pages 43 and 48, The Guardiancarried the contents of an interview it granted to Mr. Kemi Balogun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), in which interview Mr. […]