Politics

AN Osun State judge, Justice Oloyede Folahanmi has called on the state House of Assembly to investigate the alleged mismanagement of the state’s financial resources by the governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola and his deputy in […]

IN a manner that was sufficiently self-indicting and far from being evocative of a painstaking commitment to the business of lawmaking, members of the last Senate hurriedly passed 46 bills on a day before the end of the Seventh […]

“Chaos is another form of servitude”, Albert Camus, 1903-1960 The Seventh National Assembly, NASS, ended on a disgraceful note when it passed forty six(46) bills, on which they have been seating, in ten minutes. Some […]

Chief Chekwas Okorie is the founder of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, and the United Progressives Party, UPP. He was the UPP  presidential candidate in the March 28 election. In this interview, he speaks on […]

Aggrieved by the inability of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Working Committee (NWC) to retain power, Senator Nnamdi Eriobuna, in this encounter, joins other members of the party calling for a new leadership that […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has refused to meet one-on-one with Senator Bukola Saraki two weeks after the latter connived with top officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to win the post of Senate President in […]

The nation was shocked when the Nigerian Labour Congress raised an alarm late last year that twenty-two out of the thirty-six states of the federation were owing workers in their respective state civil service salary […]

After spending nearly three weeks in the saddle, President Muhammadu Buhari is set to move into the Presidential Villa and commence serious business of governance next week, a competent Presidency source confirmed to Vanguard. Since […]

More details are now emerging about the purported exclusion of the Vice President from some National Security Council meetings held so far, days after the presidency formally denied the false speculations describing them as “the […]

Following the non-payment of the salaries of workers in Osun State running into eight months, stakeholders in the state have berated Governor Rauf Aregbesola for literally turning the state into a failed state. Though the […]

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has cleared the air on the ward-robe allowance for the members of the National Assembly, saying each senator is entitled to N506,600 annually and not N8.64 billion as reported in […]

Senator Ben Murray-Bruce representing Bayelsa East has stated that he is unaware of the alleged N9billion earmarked for wardrobe allowance of National Assembly members. Murray-Bruce was reacting to calls by Nigerians that he sheds more […]

With the Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee declaring Senate President Bukola Saraki’s and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu’s elections “unacceptable”, the bitter row sparked by the exercise may take some time to go away. […]

Senator Rabiu Kwankwanso was dressed in a flowing white gown with the red Kwankwansiya cap to match this past Monday evening. His posture was far from a rattle snake about to limp for prey as […]

Buhari, who was   a military governor at 33 and Head of State   at the age of 40, said he would have loved being a President when he was at a younger age . […]

WITH his tall, gaunt, ram-rod straight frame, eyes piercing from behind his pair of glasses as though in permanent bewilderment, Muhammadu Buhari sometimes looks like an exclamation mark written with the thinnest of ball points. […]

The Daily Times reported yesterday of a crisis seriously brewing in the All Progressive Congress with regards to the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to spend only one term in office. The question is did […]

The newly sworn in members of the National Assembly will smile home with a whooping N8.64 billion as wardrobe allowance next week, it was learnt last night. The sum is aside other allowances such as […]

·         Jimi Agbaje, Akpabio visit Atiku as political realignments begin ·                    PDP to field northern candidate The pledge by President Muhammadu Buhari to serve only one term is responsible for […]

“Don’t single me out for probe, Jonathan tells Buhari.” PUNCH, May 28, 2015, p 2. Call it a plea for equity or an appeal for consideration, Jonathan’s published advice to Buhari was one few people, this time […]