Politics

So much for the pivot: Donald Trump is back to denouncing “Lyin’ Ted.” The Republican presidential front-runner had softened his attacks on his chief rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, on Tuesday night in New York […]

What do you when it’s increasingly clear that one of your longtime Middle East partners doesn’t share either your values or many of your interests? This is only one of the troubling questions that President […]

If you listen well around you these days, you will hear not a few Nigerians mutter to no one in particular: “This is not the change Nigerians voted for last year!”  Since the coming into […]

AYO Fayose, governor of Ekiti State, for more than a year now has been spoiling for a war with President Mohammadu Buhari who he has subjected to all kinds of verbal assaults. The attacks got […]

WITH less than a year into his first four-year term in office, President Muhammadu Buhari is already being wooed and prodded to contest for a second term in 2019. Those championing this are some members […]

Senators were yesterday under attack for summoning the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Danladi Umar, who is presiding at Senate President Bukola Saraki’s  trial for alleged falsification of assets.

Castro on Tuesday once again did what no else in Cuba can and addressed his mortality. “Soon I will turn 90 years old, never would such a thing have occurred to me and it’s not […]

Front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton rolled to easy wins in New York state’s presidential nominating contests on Tuesday, recapturing lost campaign momentum and taking big steps toward capturing their respective parties’ nominations. Republican Trump’s […]

ABUJA—After a week long face-off between the Presidency and the National Assembly, indications emerged, last night, that the lawmakers had soft-pedaled on their tough stance by accepting to review the budget.

The National Assembly is about to pass a bill that is set to kill whatever is left of our so-called over-centralised federal system. The bill if passed will be the greatest rape on our democracy […]

•Given the cloud of wrongdoing over his head, the Senate President has no moral basis to continue as Nigeria’s top lawmaker SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, pelted left and right by severe financial scandals, digs deeper […]

“Stealing, stealing, stealing, o stealing, Stealing in the name of the Lord, My father’s house of worship has become a den of thieves, Stealing in the name of the Lord …” — Max Romeo, reggae […]

Panel: you must appear on Thurs I won’t come, says Judge ‘My trial won’t disturb Senate’ Senators may have set the stage for a major confrontation between them and the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) […]

The Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has described the action of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State for cautioning China against granting a $2 billion loan to Nigeria, as attempted […]

The leadership of the National Assembly held a crucial meeting on Monday night to take a final stance on the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to withhold his assent to the controversial 2016 budget. Investigations […]

Catholic parishioners in Vermont reportedly are seeking a federal probe into whether Bernie Sanders’ wife committed loan fraud when she was president of Burlington College — by allegedly exaggerating the amount of money the college […]

President Barack Obama has a royally packed schedule in London on Friday. Two of his meals during a stop in the British capital will be shared with senior members of the royal family. After a […]

The United States will send more troops to Iraq and will put them closer to the front lines of battle there to advise Iraqi forces in the war against Islamic State militants. U.S. defense officials […]

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused front-runner Hillary Clinton of apparent campaign finance violations on Monday, ratcheting up the rhetoric against his rival one day before New York state’s crucial primary elections. Sanders questioned […]

Senator Bukola Saraki began by hiding his hands in his voluminous agbada in the fashion of the Village Headmaster virtuoso known as Eleyinmi. Those were his first days as Senate President, and this column chastened […]