Politics

Many Hispanic-Americans say they intend to adopt US citizenship now to avoid to formalise their residency rights in case the Republican presidential front-runner is elected. Donald Trump has caused anger among US residents of Latin […]

President Barack Obama is getting one more chance to poke fun at fellow politicians, the press and himself at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The dinner Saturday night comes amid a fierce presidential campaign that […]

U.S. presidential candidate Ted Cruz made a plea to the California Republican Party on Saturday to line up behind him in the state’s June primary in his uphill battle to stop front-runner Donald Trump from […]

The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) – a coalition of over 400 civic organizations –alleged yesterday that agents of the Jonathan administration offered it a bribe of N2 billion for the  purpose of  compromising the outcome […]

Protests erupted in California for the second day in a row on Friday against U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is moving closer to winning the Republican nomination after a string of victories this week. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari went to China the other week and made tantalising returns. He got over $6bn in investment agreements for Nigeria in six days. I’ll come to it one of these days to state […]

Last week on this page, I responded to the many Vanguard readers who have reprimanded me for voting for Buhari; and I admitted that he has yet to deliver the Change he promised Nigerians during […]

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday accused former President Goodluck Jonathan of favouring state governors elected on the platform of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, during his regime. He specifically accused […]

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Thursday pleaded not guilty to amended 16 counts preferred against him by the Federal Government before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The amendment to the original 13 counts […]

After Donald Trump gave a much-anticipated foreign policy speech Wednesday, some of the most glowing reviews that he received were from a place that doesn’t often see eye-to-eye with American politicians. Trump’s speech was more […]

The former international footballer George Weah will run for president of Liberia for a second time. He said he had the “vision” to transform the country. Mr Weah, who played for teams including Paris Saint-Germain, […]

Donald Trump’s first major foreign policy address alarmed American allies, who view the Republican front runner’s repeated invocation of an “America first” agenda as a threat to retreat from the world. While most governments were […]

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump waded into politically risky territory this week when he accused Democrat Hillary Clinton of exploiting her gender to win votes and said she would have little support if she were […]

Whenever the story of this republic is told, the Eighth Senate will surely occupy a big space – for what is generally believed to be its intransigence and utter insensitivity to its environment. But, is […]

There are some discernible parallels in the response of Nigerian Police and the Yoruba governors to the menace of Fulani herdsmen. The only difference is that while the former has been hypocritical, the later has […]

From the outset, the Eight National Assembly got off the wrong foot with Nigerians and it does not appear like this frosty relationship will ever improve. At its inauguration in June last year, the Senate, […]

Despite strong opposition from members of the public, the Senate has taken delivery of no fewer than 36 Toyota Land Cruiser Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) at N35 million apiece, a cost that is reportedly far […]

THE Independent National Electoral Com­mission [INEC] is, for obvious reasons, an institution of great interest to politicians, gov­ernments and different individuals and even the international community. By its primary function as the agency that oversees […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari may be facing the manifestation of the old dic­tum “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’’. Owing to the current challenges confronting the nation, the buck stops at his table. There […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the National Assembly have resolved to harmonise the ‘grey areas’ in the 2016 budget, The PUNCH learnt on Wednesday. Two separate technical committees have been set up by […]