Politics

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 […]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backtracked on Monday on his remarks about raising taxes on wealthy Americans, saying the rich might simply get a smaller tax cut than he originally proposed. Trump walked away from […]

Donald Trump this weekend again dragged Hillary Clinton’s personal life into the political campaign fray, including her husband’s infidelity, as the potential general election rivals compete for the critical women’s vote. Trump, the presumptive GOP […]

Donald Trump is poised to breeze through another round of primary contests this week — while the Republican Party splinters around him. Trump’s ascent to the top of the GOP, which was capped last week […]

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday he was open to raising taxes on the rich, backing off his prior proposal to reduce taxes on all Americans and breaking with one of his […]

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari claimed in a speech that Nigerian journalists were no longer being harassed or detained under his government. At the opening of the […]

As postscript to the series that began three weeks ago in this column, I wish to start this piece with observations and reflections that take neoliberalism on its own terms, in its own ideological self-understanding, […]

As I asked last week on these pages, what is the president or the party doing to assist the APC in states where it is not in government?  The above topic was what trended on […]

It was quite disheartening to hear the news last Tuesday that legislators in the Edo State House of Assembly resorted to fighting as a means of conflict resolution as their colleagues in Nasarawa State did […]

SOMETIMES even a revolutionary government can seem out of touch. The African National Congress (ANC), which has ruled South Africa since 1994, feels this problem acutely. In the bad old days of apartheid its leaders […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has frowned at the “persistent harassment of Nigerians” by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He described the continued detention of a former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to […]

Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udo Udoma, on Saturday said despite the delay in the signing of the 2016 budget, the Federal Government planned to achieve 100 per cent implementation. The minister’s Media […]

Voters in London have made history by electing the Labour party’s Sadiq Khan as their mayor, giving him the largest political mandate in British history with more than 1.3m votes. The son of a bus […]

Congress wasn’t doing a lot before Donald Trump all but secured the Republican presidential nomination. And it’s likely that Trump’s fait accompli Tuesday could diminish congressional productivity even further. As lawmakers return to Washington after […]

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday accused former primary rivals Jeb Bush and Sen. Lindsey Graham of breaking a candidates’ pledge to the party’s eventual nominee. “Jeb Bush isn’t an honorable person. Lindsey […]

President Barack Obama said in a commencement speech on Saturday that U.S. race relations have improved over the last three decades, but that significant work still needs to be done. “I tell you this not […]

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, yesterday promised early passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill. Speaking with State House correspondents at the end of […]

The British Labour party’s Sadiq Khan has been elected as London mayor by comfortably outrunning of his nearest rival. The Labour party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn congratulated Khan on his victory on Friday evening. Khan picked […]