Politics

President Muhammadu Buhari will formally inaugurate the much-awaited Federal Executive Council on Wednesday,SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. Buhari will administer oath of office on the 36 ministers-designate that have been confirmed by the Senate at an […]

Before we are misunderstood, let us make ourselves clear. We support Hillary Rodham Clinton not because we believe she is faultless (we know of no one who is), but because we need to change the […]

A secondary school principal put it quaintly but succinctly when she said: ‘People want a well behaved and disciplined child, but are reluctant to go through the self- discipline and self-sacrifice that will produce such a […]

Slowly, hopes of rebirth are fizzling out as the leadership gropes for answers that people thought were well-articulated during the campaigns.’ First, let me confess my failure to live a vow to shut down on […]

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, had been having a running battle with the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress since he showed interest in the plum job against the position of the […]

Driving through some streets of Abuja central area some three weeks or so ago, I came across some squat posters done in assaulting colours.  These posters had the picture of Rotimi Amaechi prominent on them.  The gentleman […]

What are your thoughts on governance in Ekiti State in the last one year that Governor Ayo Fayose has been in office? There are lots of things that are happening in the state that a […]

It is our submission, therefore, that holding fast and holding slavishly and mechanically to the phrase “shall appoint at least one Minister from each State, who shall be an indigene of such State.” in the […]

•Another member resigns appointment •Dogara, Lasun defend selves before party Deputy Chairman of the House  of Representatives Committee on Legislative Compliance, Honourable Chika Adamu has resigned his appointment ahead of the planned inauguration of the […]

•Ruling party: Buhari has saved N1.4tr in four months The All Progressives Congress (APC) has assured Nigerians that it will not renege on its campaign promise to pay N5,000 to 25 million most vulnerable Nigerians […]

A minister-designate, Senator Chris Ngige, on Friday disclosed that following the resolve by the present administration to run a lean economy, members of the soon-to-be constituted Federal Executive Council would serve without some perks of […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday inaugurated a 53-member committee to rebrand and refocus the party for the 2019 general elections. The committee, headed by media mogul, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, is charged with the responsibility […]

Until recently when his agitation for the revival of the defunct Republic of Biafra somehow attracted a certain level of global attention, Nnamdi Kanu, was just another Nigerian, among several thousands of others, living in […]

Tambuwal, I believe it was, who introduced the concept of body language into our ever expanding political vocabulary. Tambuwal, at the time Speaker of the House of Representatives, had daringly accused former President Goodluck Jonathan […]

Ogun State looms like a gothic platitude of pain and death from its transit townships but the “Gateway State” is Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s bower of bliss. There, in his stately Eden, he lives immune and […]

All over the world, the primary responsibility of any responsible government, be it federal, state or local government, should be the welfare and total care of the citizens,(provision of basic amenities,light, roads and water) with […]

Two leading front page reports of the Saturday Punch (October 31, 2015) are quite paradoxical and telling about the current epoch of Nigeria’s political development. The prime headline rendered in perhaps, the boldest of letters […]

The clearest hunch that the March 28, 2015 election victory may have taken President Muhammadu Buhari by surprise can be felt in his dreary and befuddling handling of issues of governance so far. Nigerians expected […]

PROFESSOR Wole Soyinka was quoted saying his latest book is the “nastiest” that he has written so far. InterInventions: Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie- A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars (Ibadan: […]

THE Code of Conduct Bureau and the Code of Conduct Tribunal are both military inventions. They are part of the military legacy imposed on this nation by four military regimes – Murtala Muhammed, Olusegun Obasanjo, […]