Politics

More to reject committee positions A fresh crisis is brewing between House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara and some members of his party -All Progressives Congress- in the Green Chamber, this time over the recent […]

Expectations were high on May 29 when President Muhammadu Buhari took over from his predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. That was almost six months ago. Now that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) is about to be […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Lai Mohammed, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as “a quarrelsome and misguided individual” who will end up as a minister without portfolio in President Muhammadu Buhari’s […]

Our electoral commission was in the news most of last week for all kinds of reasons. It was the week the name of the new electoral umpire was presented to the Council of States and […]

I know that some skeptics will be quick to dismiss the foregoing as unattainable and utopian. Not so. It can be done. It’s been done in a number of other countries. All it takes is […]

Some Peoples Democratic Party senators on Friday restated their continued support for the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. They said despite the fact that they staged a walkout of the Senate on Thursday to protest […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has departed New Delhi India for Nigeria after a 4 day official visit to New Delhi India to attend the 3rd India-Africa Forum Summit.  

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government cannot afford to pay forty-two ministers and that not all ministerial nominees screened by the Senate will have portfolios. The President also said that Nigeria has been […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says some of the ministerial nominees will end up “sitting” in federal executive council sessions rather emerging substantive ministers. In an interactive session with journalists in New Delhi, capital of India, on Friday, […]

The new progressive government at the centre has reason to worry about souring ethnic relations. Indeed, since the beginning of the British experiment that assembled disparate entities and tossed them into what was meant to […]

This writer and this page will lead the applause for Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s stewardship the moment he surpasses his over-hyped and quite average performance. Apparently, Amosun has mended some roads, built new ones and constructed […]

ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, will today, deliver judgment in the appeal seeking to quash the 13-count criminal charge pending against the Senate President, Dr. Olubukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct […]

THE House of Representatives is to intervene in the planned deportation of 29,000 Nigerians from the United Kingdom  (UK). House Committees on Diaspora and Foreign Affairs have been mandated to look into the matter.

THE African Union Commission (AUC) has unveiled plan to honour All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with the “Pillar of Art and Culture in Africa” award. The award will be bestowed […]

Senators of the Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday staged a walkout in protest of the procedure adopted by the upper legislative chamber in clearing a former governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, for a ministerial […]

By virtue of their office,  governors do not move anyhow. Their schedule is planned in detail and everything is done according to protocol. Without the protocol say so, a governor would not move out of […]

The view is popularly held that he who has never failed has never really succeeded because, properly used, that which people look upon as failure could provide a major springboard to bigger successes. Again, failure […]

Dishonesty and greed by the political class were identified as threats to nationhood in Awo’s 1947  ‘Path to Nigeria Freedom’ rejected by some ‘ethnic groups, their political parties and political leaders’ who believed whatever they […]

Many political watchers believe that even if the President would not be able to do much in other areas of governance like tackling the economy, he would at least be able to plug holes and […]