Politics

The Publicity Secretary of the People Democratic Party in Osun State, Alhaji Bola Ajao, in this interview with Adesoji Adeniyi, speaks about the petition written by Justice Folaranmi Oloyede calling for the impeachment of Governor […]

Being continuation of interview with Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Henry Dickson. Tell us about the Maritime Uni- versity and employment genera- tion… I will come to your question; there was an initiative that I proposed […]

Permit me to begin this week’s column with a small aside. One of the things that I learnt from my late father, Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode and my leader, President Olusegun Obasanjo, is that one must […]

The Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Osun State All Progressives Congress, Kunle Oyatomi, in this interview with Adesoji Adeniyi, speaks on the financial situation of the state and other issues. The All Progressives Congress-led […]

Judging by the way Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has been speaking in the public space, the language he uses, the authoritative air he exudes, the ease with which he has been pouring scorn on […]

Much of the routine criticisms of Nigerian politics has to do with the seeming of absence of ideas and ideology in organising political competition and contestation for public office from where service can be rendered […]

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Reverend Mathew Hassan Kukah, is, of course, not the only person to have apparently pooh-poohed President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration of war on corruption. Chieftains of the erstwhile ruling […]

Host of heaven has delivered Buhari from the JonaSATAN, now it is the turn of Tinubu to be crucified. Tinubu is my Inlaw from Iragbiji, yet he became number 1 citizen in Lagos for 8years. […]

A former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, has advised the immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to go and make peace with his former boss, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Fashola, who has […]

The Lagos State Government has removed the list of contracts awarded under the administration of former Governor Babatunde Fashola. The list which was published on the website of the state’s Public Procurement Agency,www.lagosppa.gov.ng, stated that […]

As President Buhari digs in without looking back in fighting corruption in Nigeria, corruption is ferociously fighting back like a wounded lion. The most corrupt political party in Africa and the world, PDP was the […]

Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson spoke with reporters in Lagos  on his second term ambition, the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the cash crunch that has hit the states. Emmanuel oladesu was […]

Not a few Nigerians have reacted to the comment of fiery cleric Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, on President Muhammadu Buhari’s resolve to bring to justice those who plundered the […]

Speculators may be correct about the existence of a wall in between two former governors of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Mr. Babatunde Fashola. But the specifications of the wall may well be beyond […]

The Senate Unity Forum on Sunday said that it would abide by the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the All Progressives Congress on the crisis over the Senate principal offices. The […]

A MASSIVE man; every inch a soldier, a general who had been involved in the many coups that Nigeria had suffered. There are many people who admire him; he has a reputation before now of […]

In the build up to the epoch making March 28 Presidential elections which dislodged former President Goodluck Jonathan from power, all eyes were on Bola Tinubu a.k.a Jagaban as his support which would automatically translate […]

The battle of wills rocking the leadership of the All Progressives Congress may soon be over. Multiple sources told SUNDAY PUNCHthat contrary to his public posturing of defiance, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had started […]

Former President  Olusegun  Obasanjo has pledged to   support the President   Muhammadu Buhari  administration to succeed, saying there is  no  alternative to democracy. Obasanjo spoke  on Friday at his Presidential Hilltop residence in Abeokuta when officials […]

The exit of the immediate past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, no doubt created a big vacuum. More than 11 aspirants are presently jostling to succeed him. They include […]