Politics

“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 […]

Without a referendum, it is impossible to determine exactly who is a Biafran and we cannot take IPOB’s framing as definitive and final. But we can say with certainty that not all Igbos are Biafrans […]

The USA PATRIOT Act or the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001” is a set of laws created to deter and punish terrorist acts […]

Foodstuff, others to get N427.5m A FLEET of new exotic cars is on the way for the Presidency. The BMW salon cars for principal officers are likley to cost N3,630,000,000, going by the 2016 budget […]

LAGOS — THE Federal Government, yesterday, explained how it would fund the N5,000 monthly welfare payment to vulnerable Nigerians just as it reaffirmed that the Boko Haram insurgency had been technically suppressed. The minister also […]

Of the columns that have appeared in this space every Tuesday this year, one in particular clings in my memory, but not on account of its impact, the controversy that trailed it, and the abuse […]

It took just one Christmas message tweet by Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s special adviser on Media and Publicity, to re-ignite what has been a brewing online war between the so-called “Jonathanians” or the latter day, […]

It is time for Edwin Clark to come out of his shell by apologising to Nigerians as his inactions or greed have led many people to their untimely deaths. He needs to free his conscience […]

Former director of media of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign committee, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has taken President Muhammadu Buhari to the cleaners on the war against insurgency by his administration. In an open […]

The Tudun Wada ward of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State on Monday suspended the senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial Zone, Shehu Sani, from the party. The senator, a registered member of the party […]

A Second Republic member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, has cautioned Federal Government against the use of plea bargain to resolve cases of corruption. Mohammed said this in a telephone interview with […]

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Sunday held a private meeting with a former Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande. Ribadu, who contested […]

Ahab at a time in the history of Israel, was their king. He was a good man – almost like a bumble bee – for bumble bees do not hurt people. So gentlemanly, that he […]

Part of the roots of corruption lie in Nigeria’s militarised, centralising, unitary structure in a multi-national and multi-cultural country; this has to go and be replaced with a federal system, a federal constitution with the […]

As the war on corruption heightens, the political battle-line between the governing All Progressives Congress, APC and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has sharply been drawn. While leaders from both parties voice out their […]

Why the Igbo would be more pained by President Jonathan’s electoral loss than the Ijaw nation completely beats my imagination. It will be worth our while, this last Sunday of the year of our Lord […]

“Are you going to hang him anyhow and try him afterward?” Mark Twain, 1835-1910. VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 85. The effectiveness of a national security organization is determined by the accuracy of its reports. […]

The mish-mash of Nigeria’s post-war history has permitted many sad revisions which in turn has made Nigerian historical studies and its statements therefrom to be lopsided, ethnic, and gnarled. We have tended in Nigeria to […]

Why Senate President Bukola Saraki needs new cars to go with his new position needs to be explained to a sceptical public. In a statement on December 13, Senate spokesperson Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi said: […]

In the manifesto that Buhari and his party waved as contract with the electorate last March, the section on Reform states unequivocally the commitment of Buhari and his party to bring fundamental changes to the […]