Politics

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, on Monday, restrained the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government from deploying the military to supervise the coming general elections. The presiding Judge, Justice Ibrahim Buba, in […]

    Maverick politician and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Joseph Kennedy Waku takes a peep into a possible post-election Mu­hammadu Buhari Presidency and concludes that the septuagenarian ex-military general may contend […]

It is great that  terrorists have been pushed out of Baga, Bama and others but how does that translate into electoral advantage for Jonathan in places like Chibok where hundreds of families are still grieving […]

  By OMONIYI SALAUDEEN The suit challenging the right of Presi­dent Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 election is still subsisting in the court some weeks to the March 28 presidential poll. In this interview, […]

What is wrong is for Yoruba groups to confuse the demand of the Yoruba for restoration of federalism with the recommendations of the 2014 national conference convened by President Jonathan. With apology to my other […]

AFTER about four months of frenzied campaigns, we have just five days to the rescheduled presidential election 2015. I consider it necessary to make a few concluding remarks on the two major presidential candidates: President […]

The Nigeria project cur­rently cuts the perfect im­age of one surviving on life support and reeling in the throes of decay. Corruption has taken strong hold of its jugular and insecurity wraps up the land […]

In this nostalgic evoking piece by making reference to an imaginary Nkechi (Jumoke, Halima or Blessing), depicting the Nigerian ‘anonymous woman’) who said ‘‘Me, I don’t know. I don’t care. Na Grammar. I am just […]

Chief Tom Ikimi, the National Chairman of the Third Republic National Republican Convention (NRC), was part of the process that gave birth to the opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), but now in the ruling […]

There is an eerie rendezvous between love and politics. And we have seen this in the past few months, especially in the past two weeks.  They woo, they enact rites of affection and play chivalry. […]

All things being equal, the presidential and national assembly elections will hold in five days time. There is no foreseeable reason they should not hold after the initial postponement. This is more so given that […]

Days to the country’s potentially reforming presidential election rescheduled for March 28, the language and logic of compulsion coming from the camp of President Goodluck Jonathan deserve contemplation and rejection.  In particular, the implication of coercion […]

The presidential election approaches with major party candidates in a war of character assassination rather than on issues. Those policy and performance matters taking the back seat reminds of one of the many wars Iraq […]

With eight days to the presidential election,  JACOB-OLATUNJI SEGUN,  NIGERIAN TRIBUNE,captures the happenings  within the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Abuja From afar, one could feel the tempo and mesh of activities going […]

•Security alert nationwide •President threatens prosecution of advocates of interim government for treason The two leading candidates in Saturday’s presidential race, President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday commenced the last lap of their […]

A socio-cultural organization, Igbo Delegates Assembly, has thrown their weight behind the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu Buhari, in the March 28 presidential election. Speaking at the Buhari campaign office in Abuja […]

The Southwest Peoples Assembly (SWPA) has said that moarchs in the region can not gurantee the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan at the polls. The group said: “President Goodluck Jonathan is not sincere with the […]

One of the arguments put forward by supporters of the status quo is that Jonathan should be allowed to serve his two terms, after all he is an Ijaw man from the southsouth, where our […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has revealed how President Goodluck Jonathan repeatedly appealed to him to dump the All Progressives Congress, APC, and return to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. Atiku said the president pleaded […]