Politics

For about 55 years, the United States did everything it could to topple or strangulate the communist regime in Cuba. President after president — from John F. Kennedy through George W. Bush — sustained the […]

I don’t know how much of the Rivers State re-run election is still outstanding. What I do know is that whatever that is outstanding will not be sufficient to return former governor of the state […]

Like President Muhammadu Buhari, many members of the National Assembly, including some principal officers, are demanding from the leadership of the national legislature, details of the 2016 budget just approved. President Buhari is insisting on […]

The United Kingdom says it has been visiting the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi kanu, in prison. A spokesman for the British High Commission, Mr. Joe Abuku, said this in an email […]

Islamophobia is on the rise in the United States and US presidential candidates have targeted Muslims during the election campaign, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said during a visit to the country. Speaking on Saturday at […]

  After making controversial statements about abortion last week, Trump has shown little sign of heeding calls from fellow Republicans to adopt a more presidential tone so as to avoid alienating voters in the November […]

Penultimate week, the National Economic Council held a two-day economic retreat with the theme, “Nigerian states:  Multiple centres of prosperity” with state governors or their representatives and some other top government officials in attendance. The […]

President Barack Obama said Donald Trump’s suggestion that Japan and South Korea should consider obtaining nuclear weapons demonstrates the Republican presidential front-runner’s lack of understanding about foreign policy and the world at large. “The person […]

The U.S. State Department has suspended plans for an internal review of whether classified information was properly handled in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails at the request of the FBI, a spokeswoman said […]

In this second and final part of his interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Musikilu Mojeed and Adebayo Hassan, a former Deputy President of the Senate, Ibrahim Mantu spoke about a wide range of issues, including why […]

It is instructive that Nigeria remains a spectacle of dysfunction, no thanks to fading hopes of renewal through the All Progressives Congress which rode to power on the wings of a change agenda. Major cities […]

Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufa`I, was recently tagged `Anti-Christ` by a Christian group, because of a Bill he presented before the state House of Assembly. The title won`t stick however because the same […]

Violence is sadly becoming a defining feature of elections in Rivers State. The 2015 general election in the state went down as the bloodiest in the country with about 100 reported deaths. Unfortunately, despite all […]

Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump in the Republican nomination contest in Wisconsin, according to a Fox Business Network Poll released Thursday. Cruz garners 42 percent among Wisconsin likely GOP primary voters, while Trump receives 32 […]

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump made a surprise closed-door visit to the Republican National Committee on Thursday after a tumultuous two days on the campaign trail that included a reversal of his pledge to support […]

Following the improvement in power supply after the swearing-in of President Muhammadu Buhari last year, many Nigerians attributed the development to the president’s body language. When queues for fuel suddenly disappeared, some people shouted “hope […]

One early morning in May last year, about three weeks to the inauguration of the victorious Muhammadu Buhari as the new president, the then First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, descended the staircase into the presidential […]

President Muhammadu Buhari gave what could be likened to a State of the Nation address last Thursday. Only that he spoke, not to the nation, but to the National Executive Council of his party, the […]