Politics

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 […]

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 […]