Politics

Civil rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, in this interview with GBENRO ADEOYE, speaks on President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list and other issues concerning governance Do you think the names on the ministerial list are worth the […]

Waiting for President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers was like waiting forever. The waiting game lasted the whole of 16 good weeks. Quite a good number of people became either disenchanted or disillusioned. Not only this. The […]

  The ministerial nominee from Kwara state and the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed insisted that he deserved the ministerial nomination from Kwara state which nobody,or group of persons could deny him. […]

A ministerial nominee, Senator Chris Ngige, on Friday said the various criteria outlined by the Senate for the screening of ministerial nominees submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari were in conformity with the nation’s […]

A Patriarch of the Aladura Church, Olapade Agoro, has said that Senate President Bukola Saraki lacks the legal and moral authority to preside over the Senate’s screening of ministerial nominees. Mr. Agoro, the chairman and […]

THE National and State Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta yesterday ruled that the emergence of controversial politician, Chief Buruji Kashamu, as winner of the March 28 Senatorial Election in Ogun East was substantially […]

Tough times await ministerial nominees in the Senate on Tuesday as the Peoples Democratic Party senators on Friday vowed not to lower their guard during the screening at the upper legislative chamber. Saturday PUNCH reliably […]

The controversy over the monthly salary of a Nigerian lawmaker has finally been laid to rest with a formal disclosure of what the legislators earn. The National Institute of Legislative Studies, NILS, apparently worried by […]

IMMEDIATE past  Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is battling with cancer in London and  being investigated by UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) for alleged corruption, has asked Nigerians for a special favour. She wants […]

Rivers state govern ment has ordered former governor Chibuike Amaechi , Brigadier Anthony Ukpo rtd  and some appointees of the former governor to refund  about 100 billion naira allegedly missing from the state’s coffer. This […]

Problems of a constitutional evil arose, as we have seen since 1999, especially since 2010, when a government in power made our constitution a “walking dead” and made Nigerians groan because of the destructive form […]

We were huddled in a needless suspense and tenterhook for about 120 days. Since 1914, the appointment of ministers had never generated so much heat cramp in the skeletal muscles of Nigeria. The preceding logorrhea […]

Members of the House of Representatives are intensifying their lobby for what they consider lucrative House committee positions, ahead of an announcement of committee membership by the speaker, Yakubu Dogara. Barring any last minute change, […]

Two things worry me about President Muhammadu Buhari. I wonder why he has given the most definitive directions about his administration when he is out of the country. It was while the President was being […]

There is growing and justified local and international concern about public corruption in Nigeria. But how deep is corruption in the country? Most Nigerians, including public officials, who are at the centre of corruption in […]

For a long time, Nigeria’s 2015 general elections will remain the subject of analyses by students and scholars of history and politics. As an art and a social science, politics and political analysis can never […]

Dr Bukola Saraki, long before becoming the Senate President, was undoubtedly one of the most powerful Nigerian leaders. In 1990, with just about one year post NYSC experience, he became a director of ‘Societe Generale’, […]

I HAVE always been amused by it all. I mean the anxi­ety of those who waited with bated breath for President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees. They had expected something out of the ordinary because of […]

TO HER, everybody else was a nobody. She looked down on others as if they were not God’s creatures. She was too full of herself and she went about her job – a public office […]

At last, President Muhammadu Buhari, uncharitably christened “Baba Go Slow” by his critics, has finally brought out his ministerial list albeit the first batch. After keeping the nation waiting and guessing, the Senate President, Bukola […]