Politics

Following criticisms that trailed the appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari which many argued were lopsided in favour of the north, the president, yesterday, dismissed insinuations that he was implementing a northern agenda […]

Sunday Vanguard was reliably informed by Presidency sources, yesterday, that part of the reasons for the seeming prolonged process of resolving the crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, may be the slightly differing positions […]

A PROMINENT leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, Chief Dayo Okondo, has faulted his appointment as a member of the Governing Council of the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti by Governor […]

Expectations of a resolution of the crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC over the sharing of National Assembly positions came to an anti-climax yesterday after the National Executive Committee, NEC skipped the issue. […]

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Timi Frank is a leading light in the party. In this interview monitored on the African Independent Television (AIT) live current affairs programme, FOCUS […]

The last time I checked we are still in November 2014, the time when the Nigerian economy breathed its last in the hands of President Goodluck Jonathan and his workmen. Those who hoped President Muhammadu […]

TO bite the bullet:There is no other way to do this than to administer a harsh, if not brutish therapy to the malaise afflicting the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The group is obviously suffering […]

‘The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.’——Albert Einstein Just barely over a month since the inauguration of the current federal […]

The tension in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) heightened yesterday as there are moves to bar National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu from attending the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) scheduled for today. The parley […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is on the one hand, irritated by calls on him to appoint ministers.  ‘I don’t know why people are so anxious about ministers’, he said. On the other hand, he has, more […]

WHEN at first I heard that traders all over Anambra State had shut down the markets and were protesting over alleged plans by the Federal Government to send Boko Haram convicts to jails in the […]

The Supreme Court decided to legalise same sex marriages across America. Let me say now that this article is in no way asking for the legalisation of same sex marriages in Nigeria or in Africa. […]

It is now no news that twenty-two governors owe outstanding salary arrears. Ever since Buhari upset the apple cart by winning the Presidential elections on March 28, they have all hoped that he would bail […]

EARLIER this year, in the wake of the rather comprehensive defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 polls, Nigerian academic and Sahara Reporters columnist, Pius Adesanmi, had rechristened Doyin Okupe, presidential aide on […]

Following the expiration of his five-year tenure as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, will bow out of the Commission today, June 30th.  Jega who is from Kebbi State, North-West […]

Democracy cannot be democracy without healthy competition and free choice. Competition serves to showcase the hidden qualities and virtues of each candidate or aspirant vying for any political office. Without competition there is no game. […]

The past governments controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party, at both the federal and state levels, left a record of shame in governance. They mismanaged the financial resources available to them. The upshot is the […]

Yesterday’s nauseating rumpus in the chamber of the House of Representatives again brought to the fore questions about the unity and preparedness of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for governance.  While Nigerians continue to […]

IT WAS a problem waiting for him even before he assumed office on May 29. One way or the other, he has to address the matter, especially as the governors are speaking with one voice […]