Politics

• Monarch tasks Saraki on steadfastness in service THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari, on his appointment as the Chancellorship of University of Nigeria, Nsukka. A […]

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders are still quarrelling over the choice of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as Acting National Chairman. Some former ministers and members of the Board of Trustees (BoT) have raised a committee […]

Newly-appointed national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, on Wednesday vowed to lead the party to regain control of the federal government in 2019. Mr. Sheriff said nothing would stop his party, […]

The Nigerian political scene is a pundit’s nightmare, with its immense capacity to shock. Consider the Ekiti State scenario. Many months after we all had concluded that the governorship election had been won and lost, […]

In 1996 when the first phase  of the Liberian civil war was ending, one of the warlords, Brigadier General Yormie Johnson (who personally killed former dictator, the late President Samuel Doe) wrote a pamphlet where […]

When President Buhari started the war against corruption, he started a worthy struggle, a direction that our country desperately needs. His prosecution of that war is still commendable as far as it goes. But there […]

The task of economic diversification will be long and probably painful, but ironically, the early wins of ‘IBB’s SAP’ prove that it is imminently achievable, if wealth creation could be spread faster and more evenly […]

It was nothing short of a melodrama at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, between State House correspondents and the Federal Government over the many foreign trips of President Muhammadu Buhari during a press briefing. Lai […]

The Republican race for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination erupted into a four-candidate crossfire on Wednesday over who has the proper experience and is the most conservative, days before South Carolina voters put their stamp […]

Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the governing party at the federal level, has cast himself as the chief defender of President Muhammadu Buhari. In his capacity as the national […]

Party’s crisis deepens as governors, NWC okay ex-Borno helmsman A MAJOR step to restore the strength of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – the choice of an acting national chairman –  was off the target […]

In politics, it is said that all press is good press. But that does not necessarily apply to tweets, according to a study released this week. In fact, it is difficult to predict the outcome […]

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is in the news once again for the wrong reason: He is going back to court to face criminal charges. It is, therefore, not surprising that his impending reappearance […]

Truth be told: if Nigeria were some ideologically-driven polity, Lagos and Cross River, at near extreme ends of Nigeria’s southern coast, would be proud beacons for the left and the right. Lagos, bastion of progressivism, […]

Apart from the issue of oil subsidy, no other subject has enraged and infuriated Nigerians more than the issue of the jumbo salaries and allowances of the members of the National Assembly. Yet, in spite […]

After being sworn-in as Nigeria’s President on May 29, President Muhammadu Buhari inherited not only a deeply-divided country but one that faces a highly uncertain economic future. Oil, on which Nigeria’s economy depends for the […]