Politics

Trump is huge, but so far only within the small (and angry) world of GOP voters. He’s winning in the polls and, thus, he warrants the spoils: headlines, tweets, and notice. And there is no […]

To borrow a phrase from former President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Muhammadu Buhari must move “from thinking, to doing.” His “body language political doctrine” needs a little bit more fillip to deliver his electoral promises. The […]

Many months back, one Sagir Koli, a Nigerian Army Captain, became an instant media celebrity after he released what he claimed was the audio evidence of how some top officials of the Federal Government and […]

In the company of pigs, luxuriating in muck, you normally don’t expect to find gold.  But even if you did, you could be sure the gold would be so muddied, you would not recognise its […]

AMID deepening economic difficulties, the continued extravagance of our 109 senators and their 360 counterparts in the House of Representatives has once more seized national attention. But the Eighth National Assembly remains unrepentant in wallowing […]

The Nigerian government is proposing to spend more on capital projects at the State House Medical Centre this year than it would provide for the 16 teaching hospitals belonging to it. If the proposed budget […]

Little by little, Baba, himself the Ebora Owu, is fast emerging the golden letter writer of Muhammadu Buhari’s second coming. After letter-shellacking the luckless Goodluck out of office en route to Buhari’s entry; and pouring […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent letter to both chambers of the National Assembly has continued to generate reactions from many quarters both within and outside the circles of federal legislature. While some have described the […]

Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, How time flies! This time last year, the voters were gearing up for your election, which came up on March 28, 2015. In a few months, on May 29 to be […]

An idea suggested by Col. Gabriel Ajayi (retd.), from Ipole, Ilesha, Osun State, on the issue of corruption, has kept me thinking. He said: “We must demystify corruption if we must succeed in the fight […]

The statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari, according to the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, to the effect that on “the fight against corruption vis a-vis, the Judiciary, Nigerians will be […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said the allegation by the former Ekiti State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tope Aluko, that the military was used to influence the outcome of the […]

Go forth, electoral bandits. In the next bout of re-runs in Rivers and elsewhere, kill, maim, rape and raze!  It is perfectly legal! Besides, if Ezenwo Wike and co can get away with electoral murder, […]

What are some of yesterday’s people doing now? Now that they have time on their hands and considering their diminished circumstances, a good many of them must be reflecting on the awful instability of human […]

Aluko should face perjury charge, says Fayose •APC, rights activist call for trial of suspects A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief who blew the whistle on the alleged rigging of the 2014 governorship election in […]

The Nigerian government has said that whatever weapons that were procured by the Jonathan Administration for the military to prosecute the war against terrorism were substandard and could not have been responsible for the string […]

How we defeated ‘federal might’ By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor Bayelsa State Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, who was elected for second term, on January 9, says he cannot celebrate his victory because of the […]