Politics

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday advised the President -Elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to demostrate magnanimity over his victory in the Saturday’s presidential election. Obasanjo gave the advice in abeokuta in his congratulatory message to Buhari. […]

LAGOS—Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George says he may be going on exile following the victory of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Maj-Gen Muhammudu Buhari […]

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for accepting defeat and congratulating Gen. Muhammadu Buhari on the outcome of the March 28 presidential election. This is contained in a statement signed by […]

President elect, General Muhammadu Buhari is to address his supporters and the nation at 11.000am on Wednesday. Party officials announced the decision to cancel the address at about 12.54am after a long wait for the […]

The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday said Nigerians ha​ve ​made history through the ballot box​ in electing Muhammadu Buhari president. ​ Mr. Mohammed made the statement in Abuja […]

After three previous failed shots at the presidency, Muhammadu Buhari is finally moving into Aso Rock, Nigeria’s presidential palace,as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A retired Major-General, Mr. Buhari, who contested on […]

Fellow Nigerians, I thank you all for turning out en-masse for the March 28 General Elections. I promised the country free and fair elections. I have kept my word. I have also expanded the space […]

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, Southwestern Nigeria on Tuesday evening succumbed to the defeat of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the presidential election as he urged Nigerians to accept the result. […]

With the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announcing collated  results for the presidential election from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, and having analysed the state and local government areas’ results in the […]

SaharaReporters is confidently projecting Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of last weekend’s presidential election based on collated poll results from 95 percent of Nigeria’s polling units. The Independent National […]

NIGERIA’s more than 70 million voters went to the polls to choose their country’s leader for the next four years. Whether the victor is incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan or opposition challenger General Muhammadu Buhari is […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was on the verge of losing out in the control of the National Assembly for the first time after a National Assembly election yesterday. With results trickling in from the […]

Unless you belong in the group of the expatriate Nigerian here who told me matter-of-factly the other day that Nigeria was “no longer relevant” to his life, monitoring the returns from last Saturday’s presidential and […]

The Yoruba concept of the Abobaku (literally, “fated to die with the king”) came into full dramatic flourish with Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. The play is the tragic tale of the Elesin, […]

  Looking back,last Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections were unlike anything we have seen in all our years with democracy.Never in my journalism career have I seen such a response of the human spirit […]

  After all said and done, Nigerians went to the polls on March 28, to elect their next President and Commander –In-Chief, as well as members of the National Assembly. And the election went smoothly […]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the legendary American poet and educationist, captures the life and times of Lee Kuan Yew when he said that:”Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again… Go forth to […]

The much awaited 2015 presidential election has come and gone. As things stand today, it is no longer a secret that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has outperformed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in some […]

“Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times”, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. EXCEPT the August 6, 1983 Presidential […]

ONE of my favourite songs was written by Ulvaeus, Bjoern K/Anderson, Benny (copy right: “I Have A Dream lyrics” © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group). This music is popular with the Abba […]