Politics

It is not in my place today, or any other day for that matter, to indulge in any flight of fancy or engage myself in the tedious academic excursion in the search for correlation, if […]

SOME Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains will in Abuja today, protest Senator Ali Modu Sheriff’s chairmanship bid. The chieftains, who are from the Northcentral, Notheast, Southwest and Southeast, are expected to take a position on […]

Donald Trump said Wednesday that he plans to release his taxes when an IRS audit is completed, despite telling the Associated Press the previous day that he would not release his tax documents.

Republican veteran Newt Gingrich did not rule out on Wednesday the possibility that he could be persuaded to serve as presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, but said Trump has plenty of other […]

A majority of Brazil’s Senate indicated on Thursday it will vote to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for breaking budget laws, signaling the end of 13 years of rule by the leftist Workers Party […]

In recent times, politics in Edo State has witnessed the most strident and bilious politicking in the state’s history.This has come with accompanying frightful potentials for exacerbating the already taut and fragile security situation in […]

As the old saying goes, a prophet is not recognised at his home but often times revered outside. As President Muhammadu Buhari is increasingly being assailed in the social media he is now being courted […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has of late been speaking up on the renewed agitation for the realization of Biafra by our brothers and sisters in the eastern part of the country. The president, who had for […]

The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has reiterated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will take back the reins of governance at the federal level in 2019. Addressing the party’s delegates at the state […]

Beware of saying anything bad about Hillary Clinton online – you may end up confronted by a multimillion-dollar super PAC working to shut you down on social media. The Los Angeles Times reports that Correct […]

Supporters of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff have set up burning barricades and blocked roads across the country in protest against moves to impeach her. The roadblocks have caused widespread disruption in all Brazilian states. The […]

Jon Stewart launched a stinging new round of criticism against Donald Trump on Monday, calling the presumptive Republican presidential nominee a thin-skinned hypocrite who ridicules political rivals and minorities but implodes when faced with even […]

Former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz returned to his job in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday with a warning to Washington that the turbulent primary race was a wake-up call. “All across this country people […]

Donald Trump, the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee, said on Tuesday he would like House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan to chair the party’s July convention, Fox News Channel reported.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in West Virginia’s primary, winning over voters deeply skeptical about the economy and signaling the difficulty Clinton may have in industrial states in the […]

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said the newly elected mayor of London would be an “exception” to his proposed ban on Muslims travelling to the US. Because of his faith, Sadiq Khan had expressed concern […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan opened the door Monday to stepping down as Republican convention chairman if asked by presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, whom Ryan has declined to endorse. Ryan first made the comments during […]

The State Department told the Republican National Committee that it could not find any emails to or from Hillary Clinton’s former IT specialist, who managed her private email server before going on to work for […]

A Brazilian lawmaker’s surprise announcement Monday sent the country’s scandal-plagued government spinning as a key question looms: Will a Senate vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff go forward as expected this week? So far, there […]

Donald Trump declared Monday the U.S. never has to default on debt “because you print the money,” while trying to clarify his strategy for managing the national debt. Trump insisted that he never said the […]