Politics

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 […]

Bayelsa state, senator-elect, Ben Murray Bruce has stated that the hottest place in hell should be reserved for Nigerian governors who have failed to pay the salaries of their workers. Murray-Bruce who is chairman of […]

The Igbo ethnic nationality will not beg for appointments from the incoming Federal Government, according to its umbrella socio-cultural organization, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo. It also deplored the recent visit to the President-elect, Major General Muhammadu […]

Former Governor of Kaduna State and National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Balarabe Musa, on Thursday, said President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari should expect a fight from his political associates in the All Progressives Congress […]

It’s hard trying to keep up with the pace of news from the states and Abuja these days. With three weeks to hand over, politicians are at their terrible best. While the incoming All Progressives […]

I have a mental picture of the last few weeks in the Presidential Villa in Abuja. People walking around in a daze, unable to believe they would soon have to leave their cozy offices and […]

Femi Fani-Kayode, Doyin Okupe, Reuben Abati, Olisa Metuh and company earnestly asked Nigerians to vote for Goodluck Jonathan. In their gratuitous quest to feather their nests, they declared and perpetuated with unusual gusto, a harmful […]

His name is now as household as the “report of fashion in proud Italy”. He is a leader of leaders; and a true leader at that; because he commands not from the rear, but he […]

Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have accused President Goodluck Jonathan of emptying the treasury of the country. Speaking on Tuesday after meeting with Muhammadu Buhari, the president-elect, in Abuja, […]

THE way Igbos voted in the 2015 general election has been widely misunderstood. The South East and the Igbo electorate gave their almost undivided votes to President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]

Some Nigerians have continued to advocate for Goodluck Jonathan to be nominated for the Mo Ibrahim prize and the Nobel Peace prize for conceding defeat in the just concluded Presidential elections. There is nothing spectacular […]

The Jonathan presidency has a history of indelicacies and its politics, a genre of farce. Much of his time in the saddle will be remembered for its usual execrable standards in the form of bad […]

The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah, on Thursday, wept profusely at the Presidential Villa in Abuja over the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan in the March […]

Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, has instructed all his staff, including the personnel attached directly to him, to steer clear of all dealings with the media, and leave all media affairs to his official media team. […]

Despite the peace moves to reform the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the PDP Governors’ Forum, last Tuesday night walked the National Chairman of the  party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, out of their meeting, stating that they […]