Politics

All things being equal, a new salary and allowances structure for public officers in the country will come into effect in a matter of weeks now. The new regime which will see to the downward […]

The Appeal Court ruled in the past week that the PDP had no case against the victory of Akinwunmi Ambode as governor of Lagos. When I heard the news, I asked myself, why did Jimi […]

EVERY Nigerian loudly proclaims  their hatred of corruption. Corruption has made majority of us poor and our country backward, with only a handful of super-rich folks, most of them crooks. We all want corrupt people […]

An army is a nation within a nation…” Alfred De Vigny, 1797-1863. (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 14). President Buhari will not probe Obasanjo’s government, not because it will constitute a distraction, as eager […]

SOME ministers who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan have warned President Muhammadu Buhari to give the former president his “due respect.” The former ministers said they had observed that the Buhari administration and members […]

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have disagreed on the governor’s anti-corruption crusade and the alleged witch-hunt […]

Former governor of Kogi state, Audu Abubakar has defeated 26 others including, Yaya Bello, a candidate linked to Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party.Audu Abubakar Mr. Audu won the […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki is full of guile, courage and ambition, and he has brought all three attributes to his quest for relevance in the polity and dominance in the National Assembly. More accurately, however, […]

•Lawmakers also went away with Prado, Peugeot 407 vehicles LEGISLATORS who served in the immediate past National Assembly (NASS) are going home with N2,494,300,000 as severance pay, it has been learnt. Those reelected into the […]

There were fresh indications, at the weekend, that President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, Goodluck jonathan may be set for another clash regarding the recovery of stolen funds from the nation’s coffers, Sunday Vanguard can […]

Babatunde, Raji Fashola, the dynamic ex-governor of Lagos State had an outing last week. It was to launch three books which were to give some account of his eight year stewardship as the Governor of […]

Dr. Reuben Abati (Special Adviser, media and publicity to former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan) relives some experiences in that capacity in this interview originally granted to Rockcity FM   Please Sum up your experience as […]

The Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that he has no respect for Obasanjo, who he described as an indescribable liar. Soyinka carpeted the former president on Friday night when he was responding to […]

BARELY two days after the accusative Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly, a.k.a. southern leaders or SNPA, pointed out what they described as President Muhammadu Buhari’s inequitable pro-North appointments, the president blithely went ahead to announce a […]

I did not pay mind to the vicious campaign attending the appointment of Mrs. Amina Bala Zakari as acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission by President Muhammadu Buhari, having, from its earliest stir, […]

TODAY, let’s remember all those heroes perse­cuted, martyred, lampooned, criticised, chastised for predicting doom, for challenging orthodox thinking, for saying truth that sounded like false­hood, for shifting the paradigm. They include prophets, preachers, philosophers, astronomers, […]

We are living in a very interesting time. There is an air of repugnancy everywhere, most especially in Lagos State where the immoral stench and the dark odium of Mr. Babatunde Fashola’s administration is daily […]

Suicide is bad but one would understand why Hitler preferred it. The boko haram variety is propelled by the lust for heavenly virgins. The delusional is sick , so his plight is perhaps understandable. But […]

This piece is not about former President Goodluck Jonathan, but it is important to focus on him to help us understand our current predicament. In June 2012, when the former President made his infamous “I […]

Buhari is working. As the first 100 days in office approaches, many pundits are presumably getting their pens ready to deliver their judgment on the President’s performance during the period which now seems to have […]