Politics

The Lagos State Government says there will be no restriction of human and vehicular movements during the September environmental sanitation. The government explained that such would allow for a hitch-free Eid-el-Kabir celebration, as those who […]

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has described the reported emergence of former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, as the All Progressive Congress gubernatorial candidate in the state as a “huge joke.” Oshiomhole was the […]

About 15 former ministers in the expired Goodluck Jonathan presidency are probably still living in denial, unwilling to accept the reality of change and their changed circumstances as powerful people of yesterday. A report quoted […]

Despite all the drama and shenanigans, Nigerians are quietly wading in a stream of ethical rebirth. We are awake and ready to make choices that will define the destiny of Nigeria. Never again will goats […]

What is happening today would be child’s play when one considers that scenario. Yet those that support the Iran nuclear arms deal fail to appreciate the fact that strengthening Iran by lifting sanctions and putting […]

THESE are not the best of times for Bukola Saraki, Senate President and chairman of the so-called 8th National Assembly that has done virtually nothing about its law-making responsibilities, but has continued to rip Nigerians […]

•NDLEA asks judge to hands off trial Senator Buruji Kashamu has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to restrain the Federal Government from seizing his property worth N20 billion for alleged drug trafficking allegations. […]

A former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, has been declared winner of the APC primary election in the state. Mr. Sylva polled 726 votes to defeat his closest rival, Timi Alaibe, a former Managing […]

The eldest daughter of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Rev. Omotola Oyediran, has said that one day a descendant of the late sage will become the President of Nigeria. She said this on Tuesday while […]

The House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on the Non-Implementation of the 2015 Capital Budget has queried the executive expenditure of N222.1bn on fuel subsidies from January to July, 2015. Chairman of the committee, Aliyu Pategi […]

The Federal Government, yesterday, docked the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, on a 13-count criminal charge that bordered on corruption, false declaration of assets, and […]

President Muhammadu Buhari would be amongst the several world leaders who would be in New York, United States of America this weekend for the 70th Session General Assembly meeting of the United Nations. He is due […]

“Throughout all the changing fortunes of my life …, my wife, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, has been to me a jewel of inestimable value. She is an ideal wife … The outpouring of her love […]

One of the best things President Goodluck Jonathan did was to organise the National Conference in 2014, and one of the worst things he did was to delay the process of passing the report into […]

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. This is the time-tested piece of advice I would have passed on to the beleaguered Senate President Bukola Saraki if he was not too far gone […]

Lores, on the Russian Bolshevik revolution of October 1917, ooze with revolution and counter-revolution elements, resulting in massive revolutionary purges. What would chroniclers write about Nigeria’s current era of change — from a Conservative (centre-right) […]

When then candidate Muhammadu Buhari made his now famous statement “if we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria” in the course of his campaign for the presidency earlier this year, not a few Nigerians […]

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh (retd.), has called on the ex-militants enrolled under the programme not to be agitated […]

A former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Charles Soludo, and a former governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Monday visited the Aso Rock Villa. Soludo was seen signing the visitors’ register on his […]