Politics

Complaints of malfunctioned card readers trailed the governorship election of Kogi State on Saturday. Though the election was adjudged to be peaceful by stakeholders in many areas of the state, accreditation of voters and actual […]

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition, Senator Sam Anyanwu (PDP-Imo East), has said  no one can fault the committee’s  report on Transport Minister  Rotimi Amaechi. Anyawu was reacting to suggestion […]

A prime asset of any leader is a wily use of humour. It is that drop of ecstasy that quells the tension in a room. It is magical, and the progeny of its lack is […]

Is nemesis dealing the Peoples Democratic Party a fatal blow or is the once-upon-a-time behemoth finally charting its self-destruct lane with suicidal equanimity? Whatever it is, the PDP is in a do-or-die with itself. This […]

Since his emergence as Senate President, it is difficult not to admire the dexterity with which Dr Bukola Saraki has been deftly but maximally utilising the enormous influence and resources of his office to consolidate his […]

This is official. The federal government has spent “a little above N2.3 billion on maintenance of the presidential fleet between May 2015 and now.” At interbank rate, this is about $11.5 million. I repeat: 11.5 […]

President Muhammadu Buhari would leave Abuja tomorrow for Tehran, Iranian capital to participate in the 3rd Gas Exporting Countries’ Forum, GECF, which opens on Monday. Apart from participating in other important meetings, President Buhari would […]

It has become apparent in this epoch that imagination is as lean as the president himself and ‘body language’ is fast becoming an effusion of body odour to the people. And just as ex-President Goodluck […]

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for additional borrowing of N1.6 trillion to finance the 2015 budget, yesterday, led to a shouting war in the House of Representatives between members of the All Progressives Congress, […]

Fifty-eight years ago, former President Goodluck Jonathan was born in Otueke, a predominantly fishing community, presently in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Rising from what he (Jonathan) has always described as a journey […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, says his predecessor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who is now the Minister of Works, Housing and Power, is the key to the rehabilitation of dilapidated infrastructure in the state. He […]

ABUJA—THE 36 state governors have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage that was signed into law in March 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan, owing to the poor state of […]

ON the eve of the 2011 presidential election, I received a text message from Raymond Dokpesi, urging me to vote for Goodluck Jonathan the following day. He adduced a host of reasons for endorsement of […]

There may be many reasons to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari’s choice of ministers and even the long wait that heralded their emergence, but one thing no one can take away from that ministerial list is […]

LET me say it, once again: I do not support the hysteria for Biafra. I am not sure Nnamdi Kanu fully understands the subject well enough to give us a picture of what to expect […]

First, we must observe that Lagos is a mega city with the associated mega-city problems similar to those you find in New York, Los Angeles, Cairo, Sao Paulo or Mumbai. It attracts all manners of […]

WHEN an organisation no longer knows what to do, it starts grappling with everything. That is when the loss of one genuine purpose leads to the pursuit of a dozen pseudo purposes. That is also […]

PERHAPS, when some people complain about the difficulties of doing business in Nigeria, they only mean private enterprises. They may mean starting manufacturing businesses with the attendant challenges of surmounting the daunting challenges of poor […]

Sometime in 2006, (I cannot recollect the exact date or month), some selected editors were invited to a suite in Eko Holiday Inn to have a parley with the then Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola […]

A week after he sounded remorseful and apologetic, Chief Raymond Dokpesi performed a somersault that had the features of a stunt. The media owner and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national conference organising […]