Politics

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, […]

•House wants adequate security for public schools •Panel to consider Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to, as a matter of urgency, submit a proposal on a new Revenue Allocation […]

The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has set up a committee on its proposed reorganisation. According to a chieftain, who pleaded for anonymity, the committee set up by the leader, Pa Rueben Fasoranti, will suggest reforms, […]

The legal team of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday withdrew their representation in the corruption trial of Mr. Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The lawyers left the tribunal on Thursday after […]

President Buhari, and many spokespersons for his presidency, are saying that the Buhari presidency will eliminate corruption and strengthen the unity of Nigeria. That Buhari is seriously set against corruption is not in doubt. That […]

As it is often said, no legitimate child deliberately sets his father’s house on fire. It is still inexplicable that those who for 16 years behaved as if they had no stakes in Nigeria are […]

THE Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria requires that the President’s nominees for appointment into the top echelon of government – Ministers, Judges, Ambassadors, Chairmen and Members of Federal Executive Bodies – must be […]