Politics

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 […]

Those who accuse the police of being rude and crude should now be swimming in their senseless obstinacy. Why can’t we, for once, give them the credit they deserve? Consider their recent breakthrough which nobody, including […]

There is hardship in the land today, let us not mince words about it. And the suffering majority is angry; an anger borne out of hunger and frustration. Nigerians did not expect what they are […]

The Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has dissociated itself from a letter purportedly written by ex-governor of the state, Timipre Sylva, seeking federal appointments. The party also demanded the resignation of the […]

Marco Rubio is moving to lock down his delegates until the Republican convention so no one else can claim them just yet, in an unconventional move that represents the latest bid to stall Donald Trump’s […]

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Wednesday that women who end pregnancies should face punishment if the United States bans abortion, triggering a torrent of criticism from both sides of the abortion debate, including […]

  If Nigeria has a leadership challenge, it must conversely follow that we have a following challenge. Great leaders are scarce in Nigeria, not because of the excess demand of the following of such leaders […]

It is with the foregoing in mind that we must examine and critically analyse the performance of the Buhari administration. I have nothing personal against President Muhammadu Buhari and, as he knows, I have the […]

Kaduna is a land of new beginning. It is one of the new cities that have come into existence in Nigeria in the last 200 years like Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Abeokuta and lately Abuja. Yet, […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Port Harcourt Federal constituencies 1 and 2 and that of Obio/Akpor winners of the March 19 rerun National […]

Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned a pledge to support a party presidential nominee other than himself, a sign of increasing friction with chief rival Ted Cruz. “No, I don’t anymore,” Trump replied, when […]

A second federal judge has taken the rare step of allowing a group suing for records from Hillary Clinton’s time as U.S. secretary of state to seek sworn testimony from officials, saying there was “evidence […]

For daring a bill to regulate religious practice in Kaduna State, Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s explosively intolerant opponents, reading religious chauvinism into it all, have tagged him “antichrist”. But from their hysteria, not the governor, but […]

In writing this piece, I tried to search online for the character of the people one can genuinely call change agents and their ways or what makes them who they are. I found out that […]

It was a sad end to the most horrifying legislative rerun elections ever witnessed in this democratic dispensation. When the announcement of results was suspended by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), tens of people, including […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has asked a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt to commit the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonishakin, and […]

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike yesterday defended his statement that those coming to the state for the rerun election should “write their will.” Speaking in an interview with Channels Television monitored in Port Harcourt, he […]

As Cubans debate the impact of President Barack Obama’s historic trip to the island last week, one prominent figure is lambasting the visit: Fidel Castro. In a full page column titled “Brother Obama,” published in […]

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton rebuked Senate Republicans on Monday for denying a hearing to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, accusing them of obstructionism, and warned of dangers if Donald Trump appointed the next […]