Politics

The Igbo in Lagos have appealed to Lagos State government and the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Kayode Aderanti, to put security measures in place to ensure the protection of their lives and property after […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje and his deputy Safurat Abdulkareem both lost their polling units to the All Progressive Congress, APC, as Akinwunmi Ambode leads in Lagos in results collated from […]

Port Harcourt – About 50 heavily armed soldiers mounted heavy blockade  around the family residence of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,  PDP,  Barr Nyesom Wike as early as 6am today. Vehicles were thoroughly searched […]

Lagos, the economic nerve centre of arguably the West African sub region is the smallest state in Nigeria. Its gross domestic product is $90 billion which makes it bigger than that of Kenya, $66 billion, […]

Before the March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections, some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains were so sure of  victory that they ran their mouths. There was nothing they did not say about President-elect Muhammadu Buhari […]

The wave of defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC continued yesterday with senior members of the defeated ruling party taking their exit from the party. Among the heavyweight […]

Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos has recanted his alleged threat against the Igbo in Lagos, that they would drown in the lagoon if they failed to vote for the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate […]

Ahead of Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections, more leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have been moving to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in what is being termed as a bandwagon effect. […]

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State, Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, has said contrary to claims that the North and South-west ganged up against President Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28 election, the […]

The dominant word in the ongoing gubernatorial campaigns in Lagos State is ‘Change’. But the word means different things to the two dominant parties in Lagos – the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic […]

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, has appealed to candidates of the party, who lost out in the National Assembly election to emulate President Goodluck Jonathan and concede […]

Less than a week after the successful performance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections, the jostling for the office of the next Senate president has begun […]

As I argued sometime ago, democratic governance is a team effort, not a one-man show. Thus, no matter how disciplined or incorruptible a politician might seem to a certain segment of the population, he or […]

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident.” ? Arthur Schopenhauer The last couple of days has been a roller coaster ride. And […]

Let the big guns at APC be warned: they and their strate­gies and manifestos were not the major planks that landed them the Presidency. I can identify three major factors that did the job sub­stantially. […]

Even before one ballot was cast in the March 28 presidential and legislative elections, few could resist the temptation to see the election as a referendum on the Goodluck Jonathan government rather than an endorsement […]

  One of its former national chairmen, Vincent Ogbulafor, once famously predicted that PDP would rule Nigeria for 60 unbroken years. Beyond reacting with consternation to that comment the opposition were in no shape to […]

If APC had not functioned as an opposition party, it would not have been possible for citizens to choose it to govern them when citizens became dissatisfied with the PDP that had ruled for the […]

Service for him is noble and that is what he’s offering the people of Lagos State. Taking Lagos to the next level is a task that must be accom­plished and he believes his experience over […]