Politics

Aso Rock on Thursday formally announced President Buhari’s approval of the appointment of Rahman Adeola Ipaye as Deputy Chief of Staff and Laolu Akande as Senior Special Assistant (Media & Publicity) in the Presidency. The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, finally, disclosed details of their declared assets Thursday, bowing to growing public pressure for the new government to do so within its first 100 days. Mr. Buhari […]

I think President Buhari should worry more about how to keep his own side of the social contract with Nigerian voters. Elders who claim to speak for Ohaneze and old Afenifere, associations of less than […]

In managing the defeat of the old political order under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, the losers were not expected to accept their loss without attempts to romanticise their gone era. But even idealisation of the past […]

The big story now is that many states of the federation are queuing up for bailout. That derives from the meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC), which held in June, with President Muhammadu Buhari […]

Upon assertions of marginalisation against the South and the Southeast in particular, Chief Chyna Iwuanyanwu, a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautions the President against those who may be encouraging him to ignore […]

Immediately it is understood that the G2 political and power architectures of Nigeria are, as designed by the Yoruba and the North, then ole Joe’s claim that what Bola Tinubu did, could not be done […]

They had everything cut out long before they left office last May 29. At a secret meeting in Abuja, former President Goodluck Jonathan and his ministers mapped out strategies on how to react to criticisms after […]

Can we disparage their appointments on the basis of being the President’s kinsmen alone or applaud their choice as crusaders being raised up for a good cause and who will not mind being held accountable […]

SOME of us must be familiar with the poem: The Six Blind Men of Hindostan by JE Saxe. These curious blind men went to learn about the elephant. They had to “observe” the huge animal […]

For a long time, due to the checkpoints and traffic gridlocks these bring on highways and inside our major cities, many like me have hardly travelled. Suddenly, Buhari appointed new service chiefs who came with […]

It is a season of probes in Nigeria. Across the country, governors are beaming their searchlight on the tenure of their predecessors. From Rivers to Kastina, Lagos to Bauchi, the situation is the same. It […]

Against the backdrop of criticisms trailing recent appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari in which the North got about 75 per cent of the positions, the All Progressives Congress (APC ) North East caucus in […]

The Senate Unity Forum (SUF) yesterday vowed to forge  ahead with its legal battle against Senate President  Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu. Other defendants in the alleged Standing Order forgery suit are the […]

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Dr Dakuku Peterside, have accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of frustrating the order of the state election petition tribunal […]

Critics of the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s anti-poverty battle plan got a reply yesterday. The government will go ahead with two of its key programmes to fight the scourge.They are: one-meal-a-day for school pupils; and Conditional […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC, has commenced investigations of four former governors following petitions against them.   The four governors are former governors Rotimi Ameachi of Rivers, Sullivan Chime of […]

Last week’s piece on Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah’s objections to President Muhammadu Buhari’s declared war on corruption during Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency, has elicited by far the largest number of reactions to this column so […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari may have started moving into dangerous territories. He may indeed have begun the process of his own unravelling and ultimately of the destruction of his presidency by his own action. Considering the […]

Way back during the last electioneering for the presidential election which President Muhammadu Buhari won clear and square, the major campaign stunt against him was that “once a dictator, always a dictator”. The President’s party, […]