Politics

Opposition leader and presidential candidate Kizza Besigye has been released after being briefly arrested by Ugandan police for leading a procession of supporters in the capital, Kampala. The arrest of the leader of the Forum […]

EVERY administration enjoys its share of honeymoon after assuming power. The allure of newness and expectations are high during this period, and the people are willing to overlook and excuse little blunders here and there. […]

These, certainly, are not the best of times for the grex venalium (the venal crowd) popularly known by ordinary Nigerians as treasury looters. The ongoing battle by President Muhammadu Buhari against this corrupt cabal who […]

It may not be an extravagant exaggeration to paint General Murtala Muhammed as a hurricane. His brief rule as a military head of state in the 1970s had the intensity of a hurricane. So intense […]

No historical sketch about the struggle against imperialism in Nigeria will ever be complete without a mention of the impact of the Zikist Movement; a radical revolutionary youth body which was founded 70 years ago […]

Guess the latest unionist agitator in town?  Comrade Senate President, Omo Baba Oloye, Dr. Bukola Saraki!   Did you catch him pump his fist in the air the other day? Ah, that would make Adams Oshiomhole […]

With the Code of Conduct Tribunal trial of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, set to begin on March 10, some senior lawyers in the country are divided over whether or not the Senate […]

•Gbajabiamila: Buhari not to blame for inconsistencies in proposal The Senate will pass this year’s budget before the end of next month, Ali Ndume said yesterday. The Senate leader said the 2015 budget would end […]

Four days to the February 19 date given by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to the nation’s security agencies to produce the former ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, there is no […]

Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are flooding Nevada with volunteers ahead of this week’s key nominating contest but they face a problem – the addresses, phone numbers and other personal data they […]

A Metropolitan Police chief, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, will be grilled by Members of Parliament this week over allegations that Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service were involved in a ‘‘deliberate cover-up’’ of damning evidence […]

THE Senate has warned the Chairman, Northern State Governors’ Forum, NSGF, and Governor of Borno State, Kassim Shettima, against plan by governors of the region to obtain loan from Saudi Arabia. Shettima had led four […]

When I read in the newspapers that the President, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, was complaining in Ethiopia that our judiciary is his major headache in the highly dramatised programme of anti-corruption directed largely towards members of […]

Our country is bleeding profusely  from the blows inflicted on it by the apparently unending Boko Haram insurgency; another possibly prolonged round of blood-letting has started with the pro-Biafra movement which recently claimed reportedly over […]

I have followed, with some concern, the conversations and arguments by Nigerians following last week’s publication of President Buhari’s UK interview with the Telegraph. Some Nigerians—particularly migrants confronted with racial realities—are worried about the consequences […]

If the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had lost the election lawsuits over the two oil-rich states of Akwa Ibom and Rivers, they would have found it difficult to shoulder on. The All Progressives Congress (APC), […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki has made fresh moves to reach out to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, following the Supreme Court judgment on his trial […]

• I was slated for elimination with him – Danjuma President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday reflected on the death of former Head of State, General Murtala Muhammed, in a coup attempt 40 years ago, and said […]

HRM Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, the traditional ruler of Isiama Afara, a community in Umuahia, Abia State, speaks with IHUOMA CHIEDOZIE about his son, Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled Director of Radio Biafra Who is Nnamdi […]