Politics

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 […]

The appeal instituted by Buruji Kashamu, challenging the ruling of Justice Ebiowei Tobi which nullified his election as a senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, could not resume on Tuesday at the Court of Appeal […]

The senator representing Bayelsa-East senatorial district, Ben Murray-Bruce, says over N18, 000 is spent on the upkeep of dogs in the various government houses across the country. He, therefore, stated that it was wicked for […]

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party says the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who is now the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, is not an achiever. The […]

ABUJA—The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, invited the All Progressives Congress, APC, to forward a replacement for Prince Abubakar Audu, its dead candidate in the inconclusive Kogi State governorship election, thereby throwing up fresh […]

There can be no questions about President Muhammadu Buhari’s military credentials.   The president is a retired major-general of the Nigerian Army, celebrated for his many successes in the field of battle. One of the first […]

Few subjects excite political journalists more than elections. To size up the major candidates – digging into their backgrounds and records, pointing up contradictions in their utterances and their biographies, weighing their grasp of issues […]

Muhammadu Buhari has a lousy luck. At this first coming in 1984, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as military head of state, had to endure the head-splitting headache from the hangover of President Shehu Shagari’s National […]

Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, wrote the play, Death and the King’s Horsemen, a gripping tragedy by any account. The play fused the best in Yoruba culture and tradition with the English medium of theatrical rendition, […]

The All Progressives Congress may have won the presidential election and a majority of seats in both houses of the National Assembly but the party’s control of the Presidency and the legislature is another story […]

ABUJA — The anti-climax arising from the death of Prince Abubakar Audu in the Kogi State governorship election continued yesterday after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC affirmed that the dead Audu remained the candidate […]

When Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, popularly recognised by her initials, HID, is buried on November 25, the closure will open another chapter of post-Awoism after the death of her husband, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the […]

Enugu -The meeting of Igbo leaders summoned by the South East Governors’ Forum, SEGF, on security implications of the agitations by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State inconclusive. The Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Emmanuel Kucha, said the reason for the decision was because the number of votes […]

Meanwhile, the National Assembly, the Judiciary, the Army, the Nigeria Customs Service, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, the Nigerian Communications Commission, the EFCC and several critical agencies of the federal government, are in […]