Politics

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 […]

The new Minister of Defence, Mr. Muhammed Dan Ali, has made what might be the first official statement by this administration on the new agitation by Biafrans for a separate country. Nigeria, he noted on […]

About eleven days ago, Babatunde Raji Fashola, former Governor of Lagos State was assigned with a higher national responsibility as Minister of Power, Works and Housing. Before this appointment, many people prominent among them, inhabitants […]

Among the many sins of the Black people, none stands out more conspicuously than their inability to build or sustain durable nation-states.  Only very few African nations are sustainable in their current configuration.  In western […]

In the last few days what has been trending (is that the “social-media compliant” word?) in the social media on the Biafran hype, particularly by those fanning its embers, is something His Royal Highness, our […]

In the light of the horrendous events that took place in Paris I believe that it is time to eliminate and exterminate every single Jihadist terrorist on the face of the earth. We must show […]