Politics

Mr. President, as one of your most loyal and faithful subjects who has nothing but the utmost respect for your person and your office, I am constrained to write you this open letter. This is […]

“Democracy lets all voices, even those against it, be heard. Democracy’s true strength is its ability to incorporate the needs and desires of a diverse population into a governing consensus over a long period of […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday named retired Lieutenant General, Theophilus Danjuma as head of a yet-to-be inaugurated committee to rehabilitate damaged infrastructure and resettle Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North-east being ravaged by […]

• N3b for re-building of bombed UN complex • N3.9b equipment for State House Health Centre Combined N5billion is planned to be spent this year by government on providing official residences for Vice President Yemi […]

Fellow Nigerians, have you heard the news coming from the ministerster of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola – that former President Goodluck Jonathan constructed more roads than any president ever n the history of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday responded to criticisms on the alleged slow nature of his administration, saying he adopted the style deliberately so that he would not make mistakes. According to a statement by his […]

The Presidency yesterday denied reports that the Buhari administration had banned the hijab, Muslim women’s symbol of modest dressing. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, made the […]

INSPITE of dwindling economic fortunes of the country occasioned by falling prices of crude oil, some lawmakers, leaders and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, raised high hurdles for President Muhammadu vuhari to scale this […]

PRECEDENTS in the nation’s political history indicated that the All Peoples Congress, APC, a coalition of some opposition parties will not succeed in its bid to wrest power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. […]

Those who still believe in Nigeria and the ability of the present government to overcome the huge challenges facing the nation must not cede the space to the naysayers. They must tackle them the same […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly has revoked the impeachment of a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Femi Pedro. The Assembly passed a vote of confidence on him as a fit and proper person […]

ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, reversed the verdict of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which nullified the election victory of Governor Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. […]

The Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri has sacked Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party as governor of Abia State and declared Alex Otti of the All Progressives Grand Alliance as the governor […]

I AM for everybody, I am not for anybody, so rang out what became the defining words of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari at his inauguration as Nigeria’s president on May 29, 2015. It was a quotable […]

Can it be said that Olisa Metuh, ebullient spokesperson for recently defeated Peoples Democratic Party, betrayed a sense of anguish when he lamented the quandary that efforts to reform the party had become early this […]

It’s the end of one year and the beginning of another. In the past seven months, we have had the Buhari presidency. Predictably, his is probably one of the most important presidencies in the history […]

Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed insisted yesterday that the military had largely met the deadline given to it by President Muhammadu Buhari to defeat Boko Haram, despite attacks by the terrorists. Mohammed, […]

THE House of Representatives sponsored 327 bills in the first six months as against 132 presented by the Seventh House within the same period under review, House Leader Femi Gbajabiamila said yesterday. He explained that […]

ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, made a robust defence of the integrity of all 36 ministers in his cabinet challenging anyone with a contrary view to present evidence against such a minister. Speaking in his first […]

“When I was growing up in this community, there were no latrine, bathroom and clinic,” former President Olusegun Obasanjo said while recalling his childhood in Ibogun village, a rural community in Ifo Local Government Area […]