Politics

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 […]

The 1929 American stock market crash left millions of people in Uncle Sam destitute with an astronomical rise in suicide cases as a result of the rude shock of poverty and helplessness it brought. This […]

As the PDP boasted in the past that it would remain in power for 60 years, so is the APC now showing the determination to remain in power for 100 years. The signs are now […]

In the unfolding narrative of Muhammadu Buhari’s second coming to power, one point is remarkably under-acknowledged for now: That he is the first elected (and sworn-in) head of government who truly aspired, long-suffered for and […]

IT is a tradition for Republicans to attribute their troubles to the machinations of the so-called “liberal” or “mainstream” US press. This practice of misplaced aggression manifests itself all the time, especially in the cycle […]

What often worries me is why would major policies affecting Nigeria be always pronounced when the president is out of the country? The president addressed the nation on Independence Day, almost saying nothing, but chose […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday met behind closed-doors inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting which was held inside the new Banquet Hall, built by the Jonathan administration, lasted less […]

ABUJA—Signs that the governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, is walking on a lonely path ahead of December 5 governorship election became glaring yesterday when six out of […]

The strongest case for the removal of subsidies of all kind, is that we then free money for investment in our key infrastructure needs. Useful, though, this argument is, no government in Nigeria is likely […]

FORMER Rivers State governor, now a minister designate, Rotimi Amaechi is a study in political immortality. Just when it looks it is all over for him, he will return with renewed strength. He is a […]

“At a glance at Exhibit A11 (result of the election), you can observe that the election was not conducted in substantial compliance with provisions of the Electoral Act, 2010.” Justice Ambrosa, nullifying the Rivers State […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki faces three cruel choices, none of which is capable of redeeming him. One, he could be absolved of the 13-count charge slammed against him by the Code of Conduct Bureau, for […]

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so […]

Note: I got the response below from Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity) to President Buhari to the three-part open letter that I addressed to him in this column over the last […]

One good thing from the two groups that had used the internet to talk about Buhari’s government is that nobody had lost hope in his promise to change the country.  To many observers of public […]

From the time President Muhammadu Buhari  submitted the name of  a  former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, to the Senate as a ministerial nominee alongside 36 others, it was one issue after another, […]