Politics

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has hailed the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President. George, who spoke in London, said Saraki’s emergence is an indication […]

  Senator Bukola Saraki, who emerged as the seventh President of the Fourth Republic yesterday, has trudged a political course laced with repeated uprisings unusual for one born into a conservative, nay politically adventurous family. […]

The dramatic election of four key officers of the National Assembly yesterday unsettled the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and breathed life into the Peoples Democratic Party which lost its prime position to the APC. […]

It was a development foretold but it was equally an eloquent testimony to the veracity of that ageless axiom: history has a way of repeating itself.  Before appraising the emergence of Abubakar Bukola Saraki as […]

Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has dared the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the state to go ahead and make public his assets. The party had said that the governor should declare his assets […]

Speaking to Daily Independent on Monday, the official who chose to remain anonymous said the party’s secretariat has received several letters from concerned Nigerians nominating Mohammed as the right man to steer the ship of […]

Some Nigerians have expressed different views on the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to seek the intervention of G-7 countries in tackling some problems facing the country. While some described whatever assistance Nigeria may get […]

We celebrated too early. Because this year’s polls ended well, we assumed that we had shamed the “prophets of doom” – those who prophesied 10 years ago that Nigeria would break up in 2015. How […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will make their   assets declaration public after same would have be verified by the Code of Conduct Bureau. Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media […]

President departs Abuja today President Barack Obama is to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari this week on the sidelines of the  G-7 summit in Germany. The summit takes place at Schloss Elmau, a 100-year-old castle-turned-resort […]

I have had cause to read the contrived attacks of a “triumvirate” of the likes of Segun Ayobolu, Segun Adedeji and one Jide Adamolekun that came up in succession in the news media recently, all […]

The office of the First Lady was given lots of glamour and hype by the late Maryam Babangida who re-enacted a Jacqueline Kennedy like style. Her pet project ‘Better Life for Rural Woman’ was given […]

A new twist has been introduced in the race for the Speaker of the House of Representatives as a group of lawyers have dragged one of the leading candidates, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila before an Abuja […]

Just as morning shows the day, the first week of the Buhari administration is a signal to what to expect in the next four years. It is not too early to identify the resolve and […]

‘Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others’ — Marcus Tullius Cicero Last Friday was a great day across the country. Indeed, it was a swell moment for […]

In a conference convened by the Igbo Progressive Leaders Council (IPLC) the group disclosed that they presented a seven-point plan to the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. Led by Mr. Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari would not be moving into the Aso Rock presidential palace until it is fully renovated, according to Malam Garba Shehu. Shehu, who is Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity), told reporters […]

Residents lament one-year darkness Residents of Otuoke, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s hometown in Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, are angry. Their anger is not over the electoral defeat suffered by their ambassador. It is […]

INNOCENT DURU examines the contributions of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, to the sustenance of electoral democracy. PROFESSOR Attaihiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), […]