Politics

Swiss Government has reopened its new Consulate-General’s Office in Lagos, 55 years after it was closed. Switzerland’s Federal Counsellor and Head of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Didier Burkhalter while speaking at the inauguration of its new […]

Former military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, retd; yesterday owned up to fathering a love child with the late public relations expert, Princess Edith Ike Okongwu, bringing to an end the 48-year-old paternity dispute […]

The 18-man joint committee comprising the state and labour, set up in Imo State, has unanimously agreed to pay only 70 per cent of workers salary across board, while making reservations for pension. The state […]

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders staked their ground Wednesday night in Florida as both vowing not to deport children and illegal immigrants with a clean criminal record. Their comments set up […]

Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders sparred over who was more committed to immigration reform at a presidential debate on Wednesday night, but both promised they would not deport undocumented immigrants without criminal […]

I read a disturbing newspaper headline in which President Muhammadu Buhari was quoted as saying that some people around him could be sabotaging his efforts. The President was quoted in an interview on Aljazeera, which […]

“Think before you speak” is a piece of advice that the Senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Mr. Dino Melaye, should find useful if he is not unteachable. He demonstrated remarkable unthoughtfulness when […]

U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump sought to regain momentum with wins in four states including Michigan that vote on Tuesday, after a barrage of attacks from fellow Republicans and a tightened race created an opening […]

ELF-INDULGENCE is ever present in the National Assembly. But the latest act of licentiousness trumps them all. Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has just taken delivery of luxury official cars worth N330 million. It appears to […]

Folks, where is Olisa Metuh, hitherto the loquacious Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national publicity secretary?  And why has he, all of a sudden, morphed from His Voluble Olisa to His Funereal Silent, Metuh? Hardball feels […]

  YOU know that adversity has well and truly come to the forest when the pawpaw fruit tree takes the floor at a gathering of the denizens and demands to be counted as one its […]

NEC extends Sheriff’s tenure, sets up committee on zoning The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ratified the proposal to hold its national convention fixed for May 21 in Port […]

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday he would not mount an independent bid for the U.S. presidency because he feared it would increase the chances that Republicans Donald Trump or Ted Cruz […]

The furore over the appointment of former Borno State governor, Ali Modu Sheriff as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP seems to have fizzled out unilaterally. Though a forum of ex-ministers of […]

What Nigeria’s National Assembly has morphed into an anti-people assembly is no news.  What is news is that leading lights in that reaction are now elements of the new progressive ruling party. When reactionaries wear […]

Poor Donald Trump. He really, really wants to leave behind his brash, vulgar, sexist and bigoted comments and be seen as presidential. Trump told reporters as much last week, noting how easily he can pivot […]

Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic caucuses in Maine, scoring a needed victory in the northeastern US state for his challenge to Hillary Clinton for their party’s presidential nomination. With more than 90 percent of […]

The Federal Government confirmed the death of the Minister when Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal received the body of the late Minister, that of his wife and son at […]

Democratic presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton sparred in a debate on Sunday over who had the best chance to beat Republican front-runner Donald Trump, and mocked the level of discourse in the Republican […]

“‘Surely, comrades, you do not want Jones back?’” Once again this argument was unanswerable. Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him […]