Politics

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 […]

The Saturday Presidential and National Assembly election has left River State with too many unanswered questions. The questions that have remained unresolved now are, were there really fake result sheets at the polls as alleged by […]

AS you read this, I am certain that the winner of the presidential election of Saturday, 28th March 2015, is known, either officially or from all reasonable indicators. I am also sure that the election […]

  It’s the matter of the moment! Election, international moni­tors, rigging, ballot boxes, protests, law suits, voting cards, free and fair, the police, the military…These words and phrases boom in our ears to a nonstop […]

Two days after the country’s presidential poll, the  immortal lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth are relevant : “When the hurlyburly’s done – When the battle’s lost and won.”  Against the background of the continuing anti-terror battle, […]

By the time this article is published, the presidential and national assembly elections would have been over. Possibly also, the results may have become a matter of public knowledge. Successful candidates would be jubilating while […]

There are some mistakes the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has made at the presidential and National Assembly elections, which must not be repeated at the governorship and House of Assembly polls on April 11. […]

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu spoke with reporters in Lagos, shortly after casting his vote at Ikeja, the state capital. EMMANUEL OLADESU was there. What is your assessment of the exercise […]

Voting has been extended in both Yobe and Borno states by the Independent National Electoral Commission due to logistic, technical and security reasons. The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Borno, Samuel Madaki, disclosed that voting will […]

Certainly the much anticipated March 28 presidential and National Assembly elections may have come and gone but the echoes from that exercise is one that will surely linger for a very long time to come. […]

Sen. George Akume is the senator representing Benue Northwest senatorial district. In this interview with RUTH CHOJI, the Senate minority leader opens up on some state and national issues. What issues would you like the […]