Politics

Donald Trump had a foreign policy sales pitch for U.S. voters and a blunt message for the world Wednesday: America comes first. The Republican presidential front-runner proposed a sweeping redirection of America’s global role in […]

The subject of regulating religious preaching in Kaduna State is not about to go away, certainly not with the declaration by the governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufa’i, the other day that he will not back down […]

A national teachable moment happened recently on Twitter between Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, Nigeria’s Area Father Plenipotentiary of commonsense, and Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, who needs no introduction. There is a background to that Twitter spat that […]

A civil society organi-sation, Citizens United for Peace and Stability, yesterday staged a rally at the National Assembly, demanding the “immediate resignation of Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki”. The protesters, who called themselves #OCCUPYNASS, criticised the […]

In line with the National Assembly’s resolve to meet with the executive to iron out the differences over the 2016 Appropriation Bill, Senate President Bukola Saraki last night met with President Muhammadu Buhari to reach […]

Donald Trump will sweep Tuesday’s five Republican primary contests, NBC News projects, as his GOP rivals scramble to stop him from securing the party’s presidential nomination. The businessman will win the Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticutprimaries […]

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up wins in Northeastern states on Tuesday in a major show of strength and immediately turned their fire on each other in a possible preview of a […]

Even by Nigerian standards, her rise was nothing short of dizzying. Literally out of nowhere – no I take that back; from the remote back bench of the House of Representatives, where she had sponsored […]

After procuring an interim government for the people of Kogi State, it would seem inevitable that President Buhari’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN would go the extra mile to avail every […]

When Bukola Saraki defied the gods of party supremacy, scaled over all the booby traps set for him by his party, and put the crown of the Senate president on his head, he thought everything […]

A couple of years ago, Nigerian economy was growing at between 6-7%, GDP rate. This was probably due to the fact that crude oil/gas, the main export earner, attracting 90% of foreign exchange, FX income […]

In my world, a man is measured not by his ability to kill his subjects, to destroy his political opponents, to shed the blood of the defenceless, to throw the innocent in dungeons, to humiliate […]

Signs on the way to Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer’s house offer harsh words for the man who could take the helm in the South American country if its President is impeached. Posters along the […]

Ted Cruz and John Kasich are sudden allies — but they’re not friends. The Texas senator and Ohio governor roiled the Republican presidential primary late Sunday with a coordinated effort to deny Donald Trump the […]

At first, Mexico’s government did its best to ignore Donald Trump. Then it likened him to Adolf Hitler. Now it has appointed a new ambassador to come up with a better plan. Fed up with […]

Besides sharing hilarity with The Presidency denying that the Federal Government obtained a Six billion dollar loan during President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to China , the cacophony of claims and counter-claims of omission or removal […]

AT a time that many Nigerians and foreign investors are looking forward to President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to the 2016 Budget and the commencement of its implementation, the financial document remains deeply mired in the […]

Bernie Sanders says he is trailing Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary “because poor people don’t vote.” When asked why he consistently lost contests in states with the highest income inequality gaps, the populist […]

Once again, Ted Cruz’s campaign has used the Republican Party delegate selection process to outperform his results on Election Day in hopes of wrangling a nomination during the national convention in Cleveland this summer. This […]

Oil tycoon and conservative mega-donor Charles Koch had kind words for both Bill and Hillary Clinton in an interview Sunday, saying there was an outside chance he could support her in November. “We would have […]