Politics

Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, yesterday, said the state government had earmarked over N13.6 billion to provide lunch for its estimated one million primary school pupils and improved by 500 percent the quality of […]

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi state has emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the forthcoming governorship election in the state slated for November 21. Mr. Wada scrored 709 votes to beat his […]

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has again taken a swipe at the All Progressives Congress, APC and President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that the economy has remained on rapid fall since the last […]

IN the first part of this article, we met Brand Buhari: a Nigerian leader reputed as “Mr Integrity”. Even his most ardent traducers are reluctant to accuse him of being corrupt for fear that such […]

PA Ayo Adebanjo, one of the top leaders of Afenifere, a pan Yoruba group and member of the defunct National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), is a fearless nation­alist. At 87, Pa Adebanjo moni­tors every happening in […]

The euphoria that marked 100 days in office of previous administrations especially with the change of leadership at the centre was certainly lacking in the one that has just passed by. This is without prejudice […]

…in Buhari, we may be dealing with something more than the political – a complex personal psychological and cognitive problem, and a deep personal limitation and challenge. This could be a singularly Buhari complex, which […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday depart Abuja for Paris to begin a three-day official visit to France at the invitation of President Francois Hollande. The President will be accompanied on the visit by the […]

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-East on Sunday asked Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state to fully accept responsibility for the fate of Ndigbo, especially their inability to secure any […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has concluded plans to hold a party reform conference in order to deliberate and consider the best workable reforms needed to reposition the party. This is coming at a time […]

There are so many things that often appear irrational about the Nigerian people. One of them concerns the saying that “wealth can induce madness”. How can someone suddenly develop traces of madness simply because he has […]

The recent announcement that the Buhari presidency is poised to commence free meals for school children and modest social security for the destitute revives a tradition of public discourse that had gone out of fashion […]

If the giddiness of his office will not permit governor Fayose to forever seek forgiveness from God, we, as chroniclers of events, owe him the duty of reminding him of the events surrounding the 2014 […]

President Mohammadu Buhari on Monday in Aburi, Ghana reiterated a promise he had made on July 20 in an opinion article in the Washington Post: the much-awaited ministers will be unveiled this month. It is […]

  May submit list to National Assembly in batches There were strong indications that the recent audience between President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo centred on national issues, especially the choice of ministers. […]

Vice President Yemi  Osinbajo says the present crop of northern leaders is responsible for the backwardness of the region, saying they have abandoned diligence and selfless service and resorted to personal aggrandizement. Osinbajo made the […]

  The Buhari Government recently celebrated its hundred days in office, if celebration is the word. The ruling administration was certainly not in a celebratory mood. It claimed it was in for a marathon; not […]

It is amazing. He has admittedly not done much in three months and could not have been expected to even if he had not inherited the depth of rot left behind by the People’s Democratic […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Nigeria next Monday morning for France on a three-day state visit to the European country, THISDAY has learnt. The visit will afford the president to hold discussions with the French […]

SINCE the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the March 28 presidential poll, the defeated Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been unable to grapple well with reality. It is time it did. Accustomed to impunity of […]