Politics

WHEN at first Sambo Dasuki, a former National Security Adviser in the Goodluck Jonathan Administration was slammed with a cocktail of charges including money laundering, illegal possession of arms and misappropriation of funds meant for […]

For me to be here today, Justice Akanbi telephoned me that he would come to see me. I protested, saying that he should say what he would want me to do and it would be […]

During President Muhammadu Buhari’s maiden media chat a few weeks ago, a few points struck me which I wanted to raise. However, I could not do so because of the kind of divisive conversations that […]

FRIDAY would be the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s first military coup. That extraordinary day has affected the course of Nigerian history in many ways. Those who participated in that epochal event could not have imagined […]

EFCC to quiz ex-PDP chair on alleged diversion of $2.1b arms cash EFCC on his trail over N600m shared to six chairmen of PDP mobilisation committees. He is believed to be in Asia EFCC interested […]

PDP spokesman attempts to chew document Embattled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spokesman Olisa Metuh has run into another trouble after creating a scene in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), tearing the […]

Nigeria is not a jumbled, jangling multi-cultural profusion, unassimilable into anything whole. Nigeria is a shattered country, a wasteland only to a mind too depressed to endow it with any organizing meaning. Our culture has […]

TO constantly have to see Donald Trump ply the hustings with dinosauric dominance is both exciting and reassuring for those of us who loathe demagogues. Trump is consummate demagogue…as quintessential as they come. The prototype demagogue sees the fault line inside his target crowd, sets his […]

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, was in Nigeria last week. The last time the global financial intervention agency, the IMF, beamed its gaze on Nigeria (1985-6), was to convince the […]

In a democracy, the final decision on any matter lies with the Judiciary. Consequently, the symbol of justice is represented by a blindfolded lady (goddess) that dispenses justice without seeing the faces of those involved, […]

The Nigerian political landscape is being swept by a tsunami of defections. Politicians are changing party allegiance at a dizzying rate. At the rate politicians defect from one party to another, it won’t be long […]

With the nation’s mighty and powerful being hauled one after the other before the courts to account their share of the bazaar called armsgate, one of the more positive dimensions to the onslaught on vice […]

THE Yorubas and the Igbos, two of the most resourceful, engaging and outgoing ethnic groups in Nigeria, are becoming implacable enemies. Increasingly, they seem to hate one another with pure hatred. I never appreciated the […]

A close associate of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has returned $500,000 (£350,000) he allegedly received from the embattled former national security adviser Sambo Dasuki, the respected Daily Trust newspaper reports. Lawal Jafaru Isa, a leading member of […]

Several people, including two soldiers and four police officers, have been killed in clashes following gubernatorial elections in Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa state, an election monitor has told the Associated Press news agency. Gunmen men from rival political parties opened fire after the result […]

ENUGU—The South-East All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday, described ex-governor of old Anambra State, Jim Nwobodo’s entry into the party as a grand plan to shield himself from the long arm of the law, following his […]

Prince a Ajibola (SAN),was president of the Nigeria Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) between 1984 and 1985 when he led Nigerian lawyers in a boycott of the courts in protest against the perceived dictatorial tendencies of […]

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.” Dr John Arbuthnot, 1667-1735. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 191). You may be young and infantile” was the title of an article in […]

Mr Pius Olakunle Osunyinkanmi is the Director General of the Directorate of Technical Aide Corps. In this interview with ANDREW OOTA the former Presidential Aide, former Special Assistant to Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko and […]