Politics

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 […]

At last, President Muhammadu Buhari’s much awaited “dream team” is now in place. All those who made it as cabinet ministers are expected to prosecute the All Progressives Congress’ change agenda with the singular determination […]

With the team of President Muhammadu Buhari in place it is now the hard part, as they say. All the efforts, anxieties and controversies heralding the inauguration of what this newspaper enthusiastically announced as the […]

Finally, governance will get accelerated now the President Muhammadu Buhari cabinet is virtually set. Save for the Special Advisers and some other cabinet-level appointments yet to be made, the swearing in of ministers is arguably […]

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that only the people of Kogi State will determine who their next governor will be and no one else. Addressing a stakeholders’ […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s greatest undoing was silently nursing a second term bid early in his first term. That ensured that most of his actions were dictated by the need not to offend those who […]

Since Nigeria embarked on the present democratic experiment in 1999, the National Assembly has always been quick to resort to probes of government ministries, departments and agencies at the drop of a hat. Indeed, in […]

Delight played with shadows on the face of Abraham Lincoln as he walked into a knot of reporters. “Boys your troubles are now over,” he said memorably. “Mine have just begun.” The 16th president of […]

THE mass anger among the Igbo  youth is justified as I noted in the first part of this article. But is secession or the call for Biafra the answer? The purpose of this second part […]

The Managers of our economy, have inexplicably, merely succeeded in shunting more and more Nigerians into poverty, despite our abundant human and material resources, with bountiful export revenue from oil, over the years. Thus, social […]

The role of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in stabilizing democracy in this country came under focus last week when President Muhammadu Buhari swore in its new chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and his national […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki has promised that the National Assembly will make public, the details of its next year’s budget breakdown. He spoke in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Social Media, Mr. […]

LAGOS — The Presidency has clarified that holding two positions is constitutional, as contained in the code of conduct for public office holders and has also been clarified by the Supreme Court. Being both the […]

LAGOS — Former Governor of Ogun State,  Aremo Olusegun Osoba, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s allocation of key ministerial portfolios  to Yoruba extraction as a big challenge, insisting that highest level of performance is expected […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, it would seem, has finally come to the realisation that it is no more the giant it thought it was just a few months ago. From the initial arrogant posture that […]

It should be for President Buhari and the ruling party to recognise the need to empower states to be centres of production, rather than remain as sites for consumption of petroleum revenue that they have […]

“False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing”-Joseph Marie What a difference a week […]

The title of today’s article is taken verbatim from a speech by Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 2015 National Conference of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Dokpesi spoke in Abuja […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s sacking of sixteen Permanent Secretaries, and appointment of seventeen new ones to replace them seems to me a mistake. The office of the president from which the announcement of this mass removal […]

Nearly six months after assuming office, President Muhammadu Buhari has finally assigned portfolios to his ministers. The universal impression is that the cabinet is star-studded and capable of delivering on the programmes and policies of […]