Politics

•Why Obasanjo should not be entertained as a democrat •One way Buhari can rebuild Nigeria Erstwhile speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Na`abba in this interview reviews the recent elections and how and […]

Following the defeat of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections, indications emerged yesterday about how President Goodluck Jonathan plans to reposition the party. LEADERSHIP Friday yesterday exclusively gathered that the […]

Because we have not sufficiently punished political criminals in Nigeria for 16years now, the hearts of our politicians have been schemed to continue to do wrong, believing that they are above the law and that […]

AFTER weeks of intrigues, the embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu on Wednesday finally bowed to pressure  and resigned his position as chairman of the party. BY HENRY UMORU […]

Chief Timipre Sylva, former governor of Bayelsa State, Chieftain of All Progressive Congress, (APC) and Co-Chairman of the Presidential Inauguration Committee for the May 29 Handover occasion said the corruption charges filed against him by […]

As the Jonathan regime winds down, a post-mortem beckons. What were its strengths or its failings, and how much of a legacy will resonate a generation from now when historians ponder its era? Whatever we […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has ordered the immediate probe of one of its members, and former minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, for criticising the party’s leadership and calling for its resignation. The party said Mr. Fani-Kayode […]

The people of Ogbia Local Government in Bayelsa State, President Goodluck Jonathan’s home council, have described him as a prodigal, who has no balls to call his contractor friends to order and has allowed the […]

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has written the state chairman in Osun state questioning the membership of Femi Fani-Kayode the Director, Media and Publicity, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation. […]

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a turn for the worse on Wednesday as the National Chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu resigned. His resignation took immediate effect. Also, it was reliably […]

Since March 28, 2015 when General Buhari made unforgettable history in a political landscape, I have put my eyes and ears on the ground to monitor the events around the President-elect, whether he is in […]

The senator-elect from Bayelsa State is a master of show business indeed. What better way to announce his entry on the political stage than the right words carefully calibrated or choreographed to what Nigerians want […]

I WRITE this as someone who does not know President Jonathan personally. I have never met the man. Neither have I ever spoken to him electronically. All I know about him is what I read […]

The world was once in unison as the theory of the Divine Right of Kings held sway in most parts of the planet. With the passage of time and with the coming of the renaissance […]

It was perhaps an act of providence that Chief Adolo Okotie-Eboh who was recently returned as the Delta State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC missed his flight from Lagos to Abuja last Wednesday. […]

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari needs N1 trillion naira on May 29, 2015 or within his first 90 days in office. Clearly, nobody is pretending anymore that Nigeria is not broke. President Jonathan’s finance minister/the coordinating minister of the […]

Chuka Umunna must be the most popular black man on earth today. Barely 37 and born of a Nigerian father in London, he is one of the four ‘Nigerians’ that won parliamentary seats in the […]

There is a fascinating metamorphosis going on amongst Nigerian elites that is worthy of paying attention to. Like in the biological process wherein animals physically develop a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in their body […]

In the last elections, the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), the party that has ruled the country for 16 years since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, was disgraced at the polls by the […]

A senator elect, Ben Murray Bruce, has come under fire from Nigerian youths on micro-blogging site, Twitter, following his anti-corruption tweets. Mr. Bruce, who tweets via @benmurraybruce, had joined other legislators, including Senator Bukola Saraki […]