Politics

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 […]

The gullible average Nigerian conflates ‘change’ with ‘progress’ or ‘positive transformation,’ without realising that the objective processes which lead to change are dependent on the blending of several variables and that positive or progressive change […]

• Proposes five-year single tenure for LASU VC Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has forwarded a bill to the House of Assembly for the establishment of a N25 billion Employment Trust Fund (ETF) in the […]

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has opened discussion with notable political leaders from the northern part of the country on the need for them to return to the former ruling party. The […]

Each of the 37 ministers sworn in by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday will receive current remuneration packages approved by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. The current remuneration of […]

Former Governor of Edo State, Mr. Lucky Igbinedion, has asked Governor Adams Oshiomhole to explain to the people of Edo how he allegedly squandered trillions of Federal Allocations and Internal Generated Revenue he collected in […]

It is public secret that the bureaucracy of the National Assembly is rooted in a rotten past. Yet it is far more appalling that in this era of change, selfish positioning has been the priority […]

Facts have emerged on the power play behind allocation of portfolios to ministers before their inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. Saturday PUNCH reliably gathered on Friday that before the allocation of portfolios, the […]

A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has said she did not use her position to steal Nigeria’s money. Alison-Maduekwe, who looked frail told the Publisher of Ovation Magazine and TheBoss Newspaper, Dele […]

I HEARTILY thank Mr President for making the immensely capable representative of my state, Rivers, his Minister of Transport. I was also very pleased when I heard that the Aviation and Transport ministries have been merged…and […]

The change campaign slogan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Muhammadu Buhari, its presidential candidate in the 2015 general election, resonated with a substantial majority of Nigerians culminating in the historical defeat of an […]

IT is a well-known fact that corruption is a major factor hindering the development of Nigeria, and unless a ruthless war is waged against it, we shall continue to wallow in the cesspool of poverty […]

Mr. President, Council members, ladies and gentlemen, I send you glad tidings from my abode; I refuse to congratulate you because you do not deserve our cheers, but rather our sympathy and prayers. This sympathy […]

In view of his criticisms of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the House of Assembly on Thursday declared Governor Ayodele Fayose, the Nigeria’s opposition leader. The Assembly said it took the decision because of the fact that […]

ABUJA—SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, has called on commercial banks in the country to partner with the Federal Government to effectively tackle corruption in the system. He said the banks had a major role to play […]