Politics

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. […]

It is not about Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark. That will be a mistake. It is about leadership, versus the aroma of it and scent that is often mistaken for purpose. Former Presidential Spokesperson Reuben Abati […]

Fireworks likely at his screening  Weeks after he was tipped as a minister by President Muhammadu Buhari, former Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s nomination is still generating ripples at the Senate. He is billed for […]

The African delegation to the 133rd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly holding in Geneva, Switzerland, is to present issue of refugees arising from Boko Haram insurgency and other terrorist groups, it was learnt yesterday. The decision of the […]

Former Minister of Education and pioneer Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Dr. Olaiya Oni is dead. He was 74. Oni, a seasoned technocrat and former Secretary to the old Ondo State Government (SSG) died […]

The Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday engaged in war of words over President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade following the grilling of former Akwa Ibom State Governor and Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill […]

In a recent comment, I expressed the view that Nigeria’s list of prospective Ministers, the moment it was sent to the National Assembly for screening, became also a vetting of President Muhammadu Buhari, and no […]

Finally, a tentative commentary on President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet appears possible. The public can’t be wrong: the cabinet is lawyerly, star-studded, eloquent, not quite gender sensitive and not too saintly, but potentially vibrant, and in […]

The main breaking news of Saturday October 10, 2015 was the death of a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peters Alamieyeseigha, more popularly known as DSP and Governor General of the Ijaw nation. […]

As I argued last week,  case against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is an elaborate charade to hoodwink Nigerians into believing that the so-called war against corruption is no respecter of persons and party affiliation […]

“I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.” William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p103). For columnists, […]