Politics

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 […]

As one who presides over the most populous country in Africa, President Muhammadu Buhari is no doubt an influential man. It is not out of place that millions of people within and outside the country […]

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. The great Martin Luther King, Junior said this much during his days of activism when the world looked elsewhere while America subjected African Americans to all forms of […]

THE National Assembly is a major arm in a democratic dispensation. Indeed, there are three  arms of government as we all know. The Executive which is headed by the president, the legislative headed by the […]

Mr. President, you will recall that I wrote you an open letter on December 28th, 2015 which I sincerely hope that you found most gratifying, illuminating and helpful. That was two days before your Presidential […]

The gecko thinks if it quits the roof to live in the forest long enough, it will become an alligator. Will practice make the cat roar like a lion? I have seen all sorts of […]

E jo laa ko; a kii ko ija” is, for the Yoruba, one of the fundamental principles of a good fight. Simply put, for a successful fight, the trick is not just to be a […]

Akin Osuntokun`s recent entry on this page captured what the writer termed PDP`s Annus Horribilis. The Latin phrase, annus horribilis, means `horrible year`. Its opposite, annus mirabilis, means `wonderful year`.  The central thesis of Akin`s […]

The one thing the president—or the executive arm of government—shouldn’t do is to hijack the function of the court. Nor should the president and his cohorts be at liberty to decide which verdicts he would […]

On the subject of the President’s media chat, some say they found his declarations “dictatorial. So, allow me to play devil’s advocate and ask: Is a good dictatorship better than a corrupt democracy? In asking […]

•Election to hold February 22 Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra leader Ralph Uwazuruike has announced plans to set up a parallel government in the Southeast and Southsouth. Election will hold […]

‘Yakassai got N63m’ Metuh quizzed  Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT) chair Tony Anenih has explained how he disbursed the N260 million paid into his bank account from the Office of the […]

Before I begin this piece, let me sound a caveat that my thoughts herein are not an endorsement of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, that defeated the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 […]

Mr. President, you will recall that I wrote you an open letter on December 28th, 2015 which I sincerely hope that you found most gratifying, illuminating and helpful. That was two days before your Presidential […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said the scale of bombings targeting civilians by Boko Haram is overwhelming and the intelligence service has no information about the condition or location of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by […]