Politics

Sokoto – The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has appealed to all Nigerians, irrespective of religious, ethnic and political differences to work diligently towards sustaining Nigeria’s hard-won unity. The monarch told newsmen in Sokoto […]

For the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (ABAT) LLC, these are trying times. These times are sour and very discomforting. The times are painful and full of regrets. The […]

Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party’s   May 21 national convention, the South-West chapter of the party on Thursday declared its support for the North to retain the PDP’s national chairmanship position. Leaders from the zone […]

One day after Donald Trump’s victory in Florida, the state’s Governor Rick Scott has decided to endorse the GOP frontrunner. He explained why he is backing the candidate on the FOX Business Network’s Cavuto: Coast […]

Real estate billionaire Donald Trump’s coarse rhetoric has won him some fans, but there’s at least one large group in America that is increasingly unimpressed: women. Half of U.S. women say they have a “very […]

Ted Cruz, Donald Trump’s closest rival in the Republican race for the White House, named his national security advisers on Thursday, including former staffers of President Ronald Reagan and members of a think tank that […]

If a test of service integrity is conducted among our leading politicians, many will pass in flying colours – if the examiners are objective. I talk of a test that is complete in all ramifications, […]

The recent outing by Segun Oni, Obasanjo’s surrogate who was removed  by the judiciary after 42 months as governor of Ekiti state, as APC Acting National Chairman, was not only a demonstration of APC’s insensitivity […]

Fathers and the Patriots, right through to the times of deeply courageous men who were blessed with a powerful intellect and huge moral suasion like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and Benjamin […]

Saraki: Bill should be reintroduced The Senate has been condemned for rejecting a proposed bill aimed at eliminating “all forms of discrimination” against women. The Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill was thrown out on Tuesday […]

There is confusion in ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s camp on how to refund the N3.1 billion allegedly shared by six Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chiefs. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is battling to recover […]

The Senate and House Joint Committee on Appropriation has detected fresh errors in the 2016 budget, investigations by The PUNCH have revealed. It was gathered that the errors were responsible for the failure of the […]

Republican front-runner Donald Trump warned on Wednesday of riots if he is denied the party’s presidential nomination and pulled the plug on a scheduled debate among candidates, raising the temperature even more in a heated […]

My major interest in the interview was the opportunity it offered to take a measure of the president’s mindset. During his recent visit to Qatar, President Muhammadu Buhari sat for an interview with Martine Dennis […]

The electoral commission declares the candidate adjudged to have scored the highest number of votes as the winner. If there is a dispute in the counting of the votes the court is approached to give […]

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump won a crucial nominating contest in Florida on Tuesday, dealing a fatal blow to rival Marco Rubio, but lost in Ohio to that state’s governor John Kasich, setting the […]

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun, has said the scale of corruption in Nigeria and the near collapse of the oil price have severely restricted the party from immediate delivery of […]

There is a tragic déjà vu playing out in Rivers.  So please, compare and contrast. Pre-2015 general election, and the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC), in a petition to Madam Amie Bensouda, the International […]