Politics

Information reaching us indicate that renowned politician and lawyer, Dr Tunji Braithwaite might have passed away this morning in a Lagos hospital aged 82. We will keep you posted of developments

In the next two months, it will be one year since the inception of the Buhari administration. It will be a period of reviews, reckoning and analysis of what has happened and what has changed […]

It seems we are gradually slipping forward into the past as our elections beget more and more violence. It isn’t that our previous elections had always been violence-free. It is just that for a long […]

The Rivers State imbroglio just revealed one of the ailments of the Nigerian mind: a compulsive amnesia. We sometimes act as though the past is either too heavy with sorrow or casts us in bad […]

It’s exactly one year today since the March 28, 2015 presidential election. In my column of March 30, 2015, I had described the election as a narrative of heroes. I started my list of heroes […]

Apart from the fact that he was a passionate Puritan, a man of prayer and a devout and practicing Christian, the thing that I admire the most about Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the British Member of […]

ASIWAJU Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governor of La­gos State, national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the man I crowned ‘Field Marshal of Nigerian politics,’ while presenting him his letter of nomination as […]

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has faulted a former Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Suleiman, regarding the culpability of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the current anti-corruption cases. Suleiman, […]

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has detected ghost workers on its payroll after ordering the workers to line up and collect their salaries in cash. Investigations by our correspondent showed that the […]

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday took aim at President Obama’s foreign policy in the wake of the Brussels terror bombings, calling the president’s policies a “manifest disaster” and saying the U.S. “needs […]

Tweet by tweet, Donald Trump could undermine the GOP’s efforts to close the gender gap, a strategy that is critical to the party’s hopes of retaking the White House in November. Miffed that an anti-Trump […]

Mexicans celebrating an Easter ritual late on Saturday burnt effigies of U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, whose anti-immigrant views have sparked outrage south of the American border. In Mexico City’s poor La Merced neighborhood, […]

Mexicans burn an effigy of U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump as they celebrate an Easter ritual late on Saturday in Mexico City’s poor La Merced neighborhood March 26, 2016.

“Brute force without wisdom falls under its own weight”. Horace, 65-8BC. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 63. One of the “bad” habits of professional economists is the tendency to quantify virtually everything. They develop […]

President Muhammadu Buhari is conscious he has approximately three years left in office. Even more, he is aware he has so far not quite justified his election or the abundant goodwill and trust reposed in […]

El Rufai needs to be supported for plucking the courage to strengthen the principle of democratic citizenship in a multi-religious society, without sacrificing citizens’ right to promote the metaphysics that brings meaning to their private […]

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, on Saturday got a tongue-lashing from the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, over his recent comments on the lingering fuel […]

He speaks like somebody who has guts. To  him, no argument can dent the rightness of his position  on the Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari. Yet, he tells you he is not confrontational. He claims he  […]