Politics

Governments at all levels derive pleasure in christening their annual budgets. Apart from naming them budgets of a particular year, like 2016 Budget, they also come up with catchy words such as Budget of Consolidation, […]

Donald Trump’s endorsement from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie opens up a wide network of donors, advisers and prominent elected officials whom the billionaire has not yet been able to attract to his unorthodox bid […]

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika last month dissolved the Department of Intelligence and Security (DRS), the powerful state security service long seen as the nexus of political power in the country – a move that has […]

This week, the Federal Government filed 11 fraud and money-laundering charges against Comrade Abba Moro, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of Interior, his alleged accomplices (including the Ministry’s former Permanent Secretary) and Drexel Global Technology Limited, […]

Republican rival Marco Rubio attacked front-runner Donald Trump at length for the first time at a debate on Thursday, targeting his wealth and absence of detailed policy plans to try to thwart the billionaire from […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed the Edo State governorship election for September 10. Governor Adams Oshiomhole is serving out his second term.

LAST week’s call by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on President Muhammadu Buhari to summon a conference of eggheads to help him chart ways out of our current economic woes was more loaded than met […]

Poor Ali Modu Sheriff. He has been going through severe strain and stress since his emergence as chairman of PDP. Those who hate his guts do so with a passion. Those who love him deployed […]

IMPROVING our anti-corruption strategies received traction in the two bills that President Muhammadu Buhari forwarded to the National Assembly last month. The action, which comes amid the renewed vigour in the anti-graft war, is gratifying. […]

Dissatisfied with the three-month grace for the new National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), Sen. Modu Ali Sheriff, some members of the PDP Ministers Forum may go to court to seek an injunction […]

The immediate past acting chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, arrested Tuesday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, illegally received 23 luxury vehicles valued at N310 million from controversial businessman, Jide Omokore, […]

If you’re presently occupying an appointive public office and President Muhammadu Buhari and his APC government did not appoint you into that office, then you’re a saboteur. This is gospel according to St. John (Odigie-Oyegun). […]

Nigerians are, perhaps, the most religious people in the world. But, to tell it like it is, they are very ungodly and their religious rituals are mostly shallow. They are not interested in the important […]

Mr. Alabi Tajudeen is an ardent reader of this column by his own say-so. So far we’ve met only on the screens of our handsets as he frequently texts me his opinion on various issues […]

The Federal Government’s recent offensive against allegedly corrupt persons has generated a lot of attention and commentary. It has produced screaming headlines that many of us look up to every week. We have seen a […]

He just rechristened himself Olufemi Olu-Kayode, from Femi Fani-Kayode.  But the distinctive Fani lament, of pathos and bathos, against Ali Modu Sheriff (SAS), as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national chairman, shows the Fani public persona […]

    HUNDREDS of women from Mile Three Market in Diobu, Port Harcourt marched to the Government House in Port Harcourt in protest against an alleged multiple taxation, which includes a tax for governor’s perfume. […]