Politics

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 […]

Six ex-exco members, three ex-lawmakers make list Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday presented the list of would-be executive council members to the House of Assembly for screening. The governor’s list, made up of top […]

It was a bad 77th  birthday yesterday for one-time Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Chief Olu Falae. He was abducted on his farm by yet unknown men. Falae is the traditional ruler […]

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has released a statement, announcing his decision to attend his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal Tuesday. Read full statement by Mr. Saraki’s media office below. The […]

AREN’T you amused at this federal agency called Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB)? And the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for that matter? These two supposed anti-graft agencies can no longer hide the fact […]

Act 1, Scene 1: Pre-presidential elections of March 28, the word on the street was that Chibuike Amaechi, immediate past governor of Rivers State, would be President Muhammadu Buhari’s Secretary to Government of the Federation. […]