Politics

To his teeming and ardent supporters, the late Prince Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State was great in life. His no less […]

I just cannot forget the image that confronted me that particular morning as I settled down to watch SUNRISE Daily, a breakfast programme on Channels TV. There he was on the podium in his trademark expensively […]

It is beginning to unfold how risky and dangerous it is for Nigeria that Buhari doubles as president and the petroleum minister. As the president, he already has too much on his plate with too […]

Elder statesman, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, says President Muhammadu Buhari is pampering corrupt government officials in the immediate past government by recovering looted funds from them without prosecuting them. President Buhari had, during his recent visit […]

After extensive consultations, the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday submitted the name of Yahaya Bello as the party’s new candidate for Kogi governorship supplementary poll. Bello replaces Prince Abubakar Audu, who died last weekend after […]

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State and his party – the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – have asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare Wada […]

ABUJA—The constitutional crisis trailing the Kogi State governorship election took a new twist, yesterday, with All Progressives Congress, APC members of the Kogi State House of Assembly insisting that Mohammed Audu, the first son of […]

•Cabinet members grumble, say ‘pittance’ can’t pick bills Barely three weeks in office, President Muhammadu Buhari has shocked Ministers with poor salaries and austere allowances. He has also imposed dos and don’ts on the ministers […]

“You look sleepy” “My brother, let’s just say I slept at a fuel station, looking for fuel.” “For which of the women in your life, because I hear these days, to please a woman in […]

The Chairman of the defunct Presidential Advisory Committee on the National Conference, Senator Femi Okurounmu, says the pro-Biafran agitations probably started due to the failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to implement the resolutions […]

The Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said he will do everything within his powers to professionalise the activities of the commission. He said he had seeing where elections were held […]

A SECRET plan to print a new Order Book (Senate Standing Orders 2015) to cover some lapses committed by Senate President Bukola Saraki has been uncovered. The new rules book may be smuggled into the […]

As Senator Bukola Saraki finished introducing the about 90 senators that came with him for  the historic dinner with President Muhammadu Buhari last Wednesday, the president and all those present could not but clap in […]

THE November 21 Kogi State governorship election was as good as won by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Alhaji Abubakar Audu before news of his death filtered in. Even though the Returning Officer (RO), […]

Last week, in a rehash of ‘rent-a crowd’, an art perfected by Niger Delta wheelers and dealers as leaders when confronted with their betrayals of the poor on whose name they swear, sponsored demonstrating half-naked […]

Contrary to what we have been told, what Falana and other senior lawyers have done is not a breach of some standard of professional ethics: it is the highest discharge of one’s professional duty. CCT […]

ILORIN — Primary and secondary school teachers in Kwara State, through the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, have given December 1 notice of indefinite strike over unpaid three months salaries. NUT state chairman and secretary, […]

THE Senate yesterday invited the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, over recurring cases of collapse of bridges in parts of the country. The upper chamber wanted Fashola to brief its Committee […]

A FEW hours after the All Progressives Congress (APC) opted for a fresh primary to fill the vacuum created by the death of its governorship candidate in November 21 polls in Kogi State, there were […]