Politics

Many Nigerians have come to the realisation that corruption is a major challenge standing between the country and a good life for the citizens, hence their support for President Muhammadu Buhari, who many have dubbed […]

• Gowon: Nigerians must deal with security challenges Only President Muhammadu Buhari can say when the new ministers will be inaugurated, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina said yesterday. Adesina who […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said 40 per cent of African population live in slums where the rights of the children were not protected. Osinbajo, who was the guest lecturer at the Dorcas Oke Hope Alive […]

Following Friday’s pronouncement by President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria is broke and he might not be able to pay ministers, some minister-designates have said they are ready to work for free. Some of the ministers […]

The decision by Senate President Bukola Saraki to ignore protests by his key allies against the clearance ministerial nominees may not lead to a reprieve from his ongoing trial by the Code of Conduct Tribunal. […]

The waiting game continues for former and current legislative aides to federal lawmakers over their unpaid entitlements. Serving legislative aides are yet to receive their first salary since their assumption of duties in June while […]

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 […]