Politics

FORMER Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has written Senate President Bukola Saraki, asking him not to take any action on the White Paper issued by Governor Nyesom Wike against him and his administration and the […]

For those who have sentenced themselves to inconsolable wailing since President Buhari and APC defeated former President Jonathan and the PDP in the epic, March 28 presidential election, the last few weeks were like weeks of second […]

It would appear unfair to blame public opinion for the frenzy over the ministerial lists. This is how it has always been. Not this prolonged, maybe, but always contentious. A new government means that old […]

A lesson in legacy and democracy IT is a telling lesson on the importance of positive performance in power that former Bayelsa State Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha reportedly rushed back to the country from Dubai,  where […]

Opalaba just called, ostensibly to see how I was doing. He is my good friend after all. But you do not have a tree in the backyard without knowing the type of fruit it bears. […]

The Election Petition Tribunal in Kaduna on Thursday night upheld the April 11 election victory of Governor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai of the All Progressives Congress. The Chairman of the tribunal, Justice A. A. Adebara, in […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday, approved 36 commissioners designate  for the state. The confirmation of the cabinet members took place during plenary of the Assembly,  preceded by the presentation of the report of […]

FORMER American Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Walter Carrington, yesterday said the American government and other world powers were prepared to assist Nigeria regain its position as the giant of Africa because of their confidence that President […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s senior adviser on media, Dr. Reuben Abati, has dismissed the widespread view that the former president lost the last election because of incompetence and cluelessness. Abati said in his first major […]

The Senate seems to be finding ministerial nominee Rotimi Amaechi’s case a hard nut to crack. For the umpteenth time, its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions could not sit to consider the petition […]

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, who was kidnapped by Fulani herdsmen on his 77th birthday and released after paying N5m ransom four days after, has identified his abductors who […]

To its credit, the Bukola Saraki Senate did not turn itself into a praise-singing choir in the screening of the ministerial nominees presented by President Muhammadu Buhari. However, that may be the only plaudit critical […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his gratitude to Nigerians for his victory at the general elections saying he emerged winner against all odds. Speaking at The Red Media Summit in Lagos, Thursday,‎ Mr. Buhari that […]

IT HAS been said that if you want to cheat a black man, even out of his inheritance, just place the deed of assignment, as lawyers call such, in a book. The greater point is […]

It is incumbent upon Ndigbo, therefore, to place the blame exactly where it belongs. Given that President Buhari has promised to right the wrong in due course, let the current debate serve as a teachable […]

PRESIDENTS are expected to be men of their words. They do not talk for the fun of it. They speak when necessary and with authority. Whatever they say is law. They are our earthly gods […]

So many theories have been deployed to explain the fate that befell former Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and former Bayelsa State Governor DSP Alamieyeseigha, the self-styled governor-general of the Ijaw Nation. Mrs Alison-Madueke was […]

As they probably would say in Benin streets, Epa Clark has moved on!  Epa Clark is no other than Pa Edwin Clark, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s proud godfather. In the build-up to the election, Pa […]

AFTER a two-day screening, the Senate yesterday confirmed 18 ministerial nominees, among them former Governors Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) and Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti). The other ministers-designate are Senator Udoma Udo Udoma (Akwa Ibom), Chief Audu Ogbeh […]