Politics

CHIEF Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, the self-styled Ijaw leader is one of those I describe as “Nigeria’s surviving problematic elders”. Others in his group include Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Ango Abdullahi and the rest. These elders […]

Those familiar with the political chemistry of President Muhammadu Buhari agree that a driving force has been missing in his current political structure. President Buhari is known for identifying and domiciling power in somebody while […]

Confusion has trailed the judgement of the Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election Tribunal on Wednesday, following the nullification of election in 18 local government areas of the state without unseating the governor. The tribunal had […]

MAKURDI—A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Mark Gbilah, has stated that the appointment of 36 ministers by an administration in one fell swoop is too much for a government that needs to cut costs. […]

ABUJA — AHEAD of today’s screening of former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi; Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, yesterday, lampooned senators elected on the platform of his former party, the Peoples Democratic […]

Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers state and ministerial nominee, says he holds Senate President Bukola Saraki in high esteem and would never disrespect him. Amaechi, who said there was a deliberate attempt to create […]

The list of ministers therefore which represents the diversity of APC is a confirmation that President Buhari must have been arms-twisted. He has said many times that he is taking so long to appoint ministers […]

The chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Abdulaziz Yari, recently denounced the state of the Nigerian economy, saying both state and federal governments have been borrowing money to pay workers’ salaries. He mentioned the recent […]

DR Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former president, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has been expressing great anger at Chief Edwin Clark, his principal’s self-appointed godfather, over the godfather’s apparent denunciation […]

Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai is in the news again. It is not because he did something particularly uplifting. The governor hit newspaper headlines last weekend because he made an inexcusable outburst that exposed his […]

Says Agbaje cannot appeal without his party The Supreme Court yesterday struck out the appeal filed by Jimi Agbaje, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in Lagos. Agbaje appealed the decision of the Court of […]

ABUJA—Strong  indications emerged, yesterday, that Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was prepared to bow to the position of All Progressives Congress, APC, by sacrificing his principal officers. According to a source, part of the unwritten […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday interrogated immediate past Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro for eight hours over the March 15, 2014 Immigration job tragedy in which 19 applicants died. Interrogators wanted […]

•Plenary adjourned for Saraki’s trial Rather than abate, the crisis over the screening of ministerial nominee Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi is deepening at the Senate. Yesterday, his name was removed from the Order Paper after being […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senators were yesterday pitched in a war of intrigues over the ministerial screening of Mr. Rotimi Amaechi even as the constitutional deadline for his […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday adjourned till November 11, 2015 to hear a suit seeking to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to fix all the petroleum refineries in the country. The plaintiff, Kabir […]

The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, currently facing corruption charges, was worth N10 billion (by current exchange rate) at the time he assumed office as governor of Kwara State in 2003. While his […]

ABUJA—AS the Senate resumes its screening of ministerial nominees today, anxiety has gripped the senators and nominees. While nominees are bothered over the outcome of the exercise, the senators were unsettled by the decision of […]

ABUJA—Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, yesterday, granted an indefinite adjournment in the suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to stop the Federal Government from opening its case against him before […]

He was the chief of chiefs. He was the father of the president, the maritime titan. Many called him leader. His mouth was fiery, his clothes colourful, his frown sometimes an earthquake, his presence imperial. […]