Politics

ABUJA – In a manner that depicted worry and anger consequent upon the present poor state of the Nigerian economy, President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja lashed out at the 16 years rule of […]

The agony of choice is everywhere, but over different things. Right now in Nigeria, the agony is over bread and butter, if not life and death, choices. In the face of irregular salary payments, inadequate […]

People often say that my friend and brother Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state and I are giving the Buhari government a run for their money more than any other duo in the country. Though […]

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has asked the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal to order stay proceedings of his trial on charges of false and anticipatory asset declaration before the Code of […]

Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday reached out to female voters, claiming Donald Trump seems to have “a problem with strong women” as the two prepared for Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary. The Texas senator appeared to try […]

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has ended months of speculation by announcing her candidacy to become the next UN secretary-general. In an interview with the BBC she said she would like to reform […]

U.S. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have agreed to meet for a debate on April 14, five days before the New York primary, CNN reported on Monday. Sanders’ campaign said in a […]

Before introducing Donald Trump to roughly a dozen Republican lawmakers at the Washington law offices of Jones Day, U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions paused to acknowledge the man he said had facilitated the closed-door talks. He […]

The greatest asset in public life is courage. The worst is what Bola Ige, no laggard, called siddon look. Ige had to rise from the ennui of the onlooker to get his feet dirty, his […]

Unsurprisingly, the bill has generated heated debates across the country with some religious leaders issuing an ultimatum to Governor Nasir el-Rufai, to either retrieve it from the state House of Assembly or face “serious consequences”. […]

The National Assembly on March 17, 2016 told Nigerians that they had approved the 2016 federal Appropriation Bill and the accompanying estimates. Accordingly, the bill was forwarded to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent so […]

The photograph of a carton of that premium whiskey, Johnie Walker, received by e-mail just as his plane touched down in Washington, was all I needed to spring into defence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s travels […]

I was in my fifth year in secondary school when one day I walked up to the noticeboard just in front of the dining hall and saw something that struck me hard. It was a […]

The unilateral decision of President Buhari to take Nigeria to ISMAT, and his claim that those who oppose his decision are (i) “religious”, (ii) “Christian” and (iii) “bigots” requires that we understand the president beyond […]

The shape of 2019 politics in the south-west appears to be forming gradually with the gathering of the chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos on Sunday. Political associates of Bola Tinubu gathered in […]

Hillary Clinton wants voters in Wisconsin to know that she has been a Democrat for much of her adult life. Why? Bernie Sanders hasn’t been. Clinton said her near-lifelong membership to the Democratic Party was […]

Donald Trump’s prediction that the U.S. economy was on the verge of a “very massive recession” hit a wall of skepticism on Sunday from economists who questioned the Republican presidential front-runner’s calculations. In an interview […]

The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, in this interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Musikilu Mojeed, Festus Owete and Hassan Adebayo, speaks on his life after office, his case at the election tribunal, achievements, […]

Are you aware that in addition to the four refineries in Nigeria – Portharcourt I and II, Warri and Kaduna, this country also had a 30 per cent interest in West African Refinery, Sierra Leone […]

During the 2015 electioneering period, it was easy to see how corruption was established as Nigeria’s most intractable problem. Hence, the then opposition party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) vowed to deal with it head-long, […]