Politics

Twenty-three days ago, President Muhammadu Buhari nominated men and women, who would work with him to actualise what I would call “the dividends of change.” He had submitted the names of 21 Nigerians, as first […]

Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has always been rugged and dogged and seems to always come out of his political fights unscathed with his adversaries being made to continually lick their wounds. His ability to always bounce […]

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday constituted 96 Standing Committees to oversight various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government. Dogara, who announced the composition of the committees and their chairmen at plenary, […]

AKURE—The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, on Wednesday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, said he served as a minister without collecting any salary. […]

In some unwitting way, all Nigerians are complicit in the still birthing of good governance and socio-economic development of our country. With about 35 million adult Nigerians said to be illiterate, a quantum of our […]

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 […]