Politics

A Bill making it an offence to write a petition against a public officer without a sworn affidavit, scaled second reading yesterday in the Senate. The bill, entitled: “An Act to prohibit frivolous petitions and […]

Terrorists have killed no less than 10, 000 Nigerians, while two million others have been displaced since the beginning of the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009. The preceding statistics were provided by President Muhammadu Buhari […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday reiterated its preparedness to conduct a free, fair and credible governorship election in Bayelsa State this Saturday. INEC national chairman, Prof Mohammud Yakubu, in an interview in Yenagoa said […]

ABUJA—Both chambers of the National Assembly, the Senate and the House of Representatives,yesterday, passed a  total sum of N574,532,726,857 as supplementary budget for President Muhammadu Buhari. The money, which is for additional Recurrent (Non- Debt) […]

As former President Goodluck Jonathan’s tenure muddled toward its desultory end, two of his senior  ministers, with responsibility for some of the most critical issues of state, went missing from their strategic turfs. I called […]

The details of the stalemate in Kogi’s governorship election held on Saturday, November 21, 2015, are by now well known. Essentially, the leading candidate in the election, Abubakar Audu, died on the day the results […]

Compared to the PDP, the failure of the APC to produce a clearly articulated position and programme on the national question is more pathetic. This is because there are many politicians in the APC, especially […]

President Buhari’s recent visit to Iran, in more ways than one, marked a substantial departure from his previous foreign outings. Not only were the issues he raised during the trip very clearly contextualized, they were […]

Abubakar Audu is dead. Scratch that. Abubakar Audu is not dead. The fellow with an aristocratic bearing sits astride in Kogi. He is not buried. He is not quiet. His spirit, like that of Shakespeare’s […]

There were indications on Sunday that moves by the All Progressives Congress to resolve the crisis created by the death of its governorship candidate in Kogi State, Prince Audu Abubakar, had failed. The PUNCH gathered […]

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, says terrorism in Nigeria indirectly created by northern leaders, who used religion to deceive poor Muslims. Kukah said this in his keynote address at a conference organised […]

The on-going protests in the South-East requires creative handling by the federal government, governors of states that comprise the zone and Igbo leaders of thought to avoid unnecessary escalation of the situation. But the arrogant, […]

Dr. Chu S. P. Okongwu in his 2004 tributes to Ukpabi Asika, took an aside in his eulogies to emphasize the following: “The generation born after the civil war will not know that the former Eastern […]

After delivering a devastating message on politics and politicians two Saturdays ago, Kogi State voters were expected to follow through with a tutorial to the country on how best to manage an electoral conundrum consequent […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) is talking too much and I don’t know who to call, to call him to order. He wasn’t talking like this during the 12 years (between 2003 and 2015) that he […]

Niger Delta activist and member of the 2014 National Conference, Ms. Annkio Briggs, has said that the people of the South-South have no expectation of benefiting from the appointment of former Governor of Rivers State, […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) running mate in the stalemated governorship election in Kogi State, Mr. Abiodun Faleke, is not disposed to the party’s choice of Alhaji Yahaya Bello as replacement for the late Prince […]

Contrary to recent claims by the Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, that former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration spent billions on Nigeria’s independence anniversary celebrations between 2011 and 2014, the Office of the Secretary to the […]

The pro-Biafra protests are  not abating; and, for the first time, reached Abuja last week when Kanu the Director of Radio Biafra, was brought before the magistrate’s court. The protests may be fuelled by yet […]