Politics

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 […]

IT IS quite interesting that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is fighting, note not for, but over Nigeria. PDP? Wonders shall never end! Since losing out in the power game in the last elections, the […]

MY people have a saying which I will tell in my “inner” Igbo dialect and then translate. We say: “leruo enya akala nari zuru ife”. When you visit someone and you are about to depart, […]

SENATE President Bukola Saraki announced the much-expected standing committees and named their chairmen. Sixty-five senators in the 109-member chamber were named as chairmen. All Progressives Congress (APC) senators got 41 chairmanship positions and 24 slots […]

SENATORS yesterday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate all expenditures made by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration under the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P). The lawmakers specifically urged the President to ensure  that every […]

ABUJA—Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, may have shunned entreaties from members of his party, the All Progressives Congress, to tinker with the list of committee heads which he released with a view […]

The Edo State Government on Wednesday said that it had begun moves to recover $31m which it said was allegedly “fraudulently taken” from the government coffers, during the administration of former Governor Lucky Igbinedion. According […]

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a motion for the payment of N5, 000 monthly allowance to unemployed youths in the country. The motion was sponsored by Philip Aduda (PDP, FCT) but was greeted with shouts […]

I predicted more than a year ago that the presidential race is going to come down to a race between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton and that Hillary would win. I neither speak in tongue […]

Nigerian Senate President Bukola Saraki, former National Security Adviser Sambo Mohammed Dasuki and US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may want to have tea together sometime to share notes. As Saraki and Dasuki face various charges […]

One of the qualities that recommended, even endeared, President Muhammadu Buhari to a majority of the electorate over and above former president Goodluck Jonathan in the last election was that of resoluteness. His first coming […]

From the look of things, there is trouble, great trouble in the horizon in the South-South of the country and the government should rise up to nip, in the bud, the impending catastrophe that now […]

If fair representation in government is the goal, then that is more perfectly taken care of by the legislature which, lest we forget, is an arm of the government! In any case, the mere appointment […]

MAJORITY Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, never consulted him before he appointed 96 chairmen and deputies of standing committees of the House. Though […]

A BUJA—Barely 48 hours to the commencement of full blown-trial on the 13-count criminal charge that was entered against him by the Federal Government, the Senate President, Dr. Olubukola Saraki, yesterday, approached the Supreme Court, […]

There is no respite yet for former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki, despite being granted leave to travel out for treatment by a Federal High Court. Security yesterday invited him for questioning over […]

RIVERS State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has told the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 governorship election, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, not to delude himself on the possibility of a rerun of […]

President gets list of confirmed nominees Retreat for incoming cabinet members All is set for the inauguration of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) following President Muhammadu Buhari’s receipt of the list of ministers-designate from Senate […]

In an unusual step, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday personally delivered to President Muhammadu Buhari, a list of nominees cleared by the Senate for appointment as ministers, breaking with past protocol that required […]

ABUJA- President Mohammadu Buhari is expected to declare open a two day retreat for the confirmed ministerial nominees later this morning. The retreat which would run from today through Friday would hold at the presidential […]