Politics

THE clock is ticking.The political atmosphere is turbo-charged.It’s barely ten days to March 28,the much-awaited Presidential election day in Nigeria.Even though elections to the National Assembly(Senate and House of Representatives) hold same day,the world’s attention […]

Going into the presidential election scheduled tentatively for March 28 – tentatively because  he and his proxies, sensing defeat, are doing everything conceivable and even inconceivable to scuttle or sabotage it — Dr Goodluck Jonathan […]

Attahiru Jega, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, and Nigeria’s 11th chief electoral umpire, is the latest demon on the political horizon. But he is a demon with a difference — at least from the […]

As part of his whistle stop campaign visits to Yoruba monarchs to drum up support for his second (third?) term ambition, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been to many palaces across Yoruba land than ordinarily […]

Frontline political activist, Yinka Odumakin in this no-holds-barred interview with SENIOR CORRESPONDENT,DAILY INDEPENDENT, TEMIDAYO AKINSUYI, speaks on his encounter with Afenifere, formation of Afenifere Renewal Group and how a former Secretary- General of Afenifere almost landed […]

President Goodluck Jonathan paid a secret visit to former Vice President Abubakar Atiku on Friday night to hold a meeting that lasted till the early hours of Saturday. Sources at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that […]

The Nigerian Civil War ended on January 15, 1970. Naturally, Nige­rian soldiers occupied every part of Igbo land and used school premises as their make-shift barracks. Less mal­nourished young men were sus­pected to be defunct […]

Jonathan’s re-election will  strengthen Nigeria’s unity’ Mr. Peter Obi, the Deputy Director of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation (South) is a former governor of Anambra State. He was in Lagos on Friday and fielded questions from […]

The past few weeks have seen Nigeria seething with rumours and plots of interim government, many of them quite fanciful and far-fetched, and a few somewhat plausible. The plots proceeded from the palpable fear that […]

This is why I am appealing to the APC to instruct all its agents to ascertain that only INDELIBLE, as opposed to VANISHING INK, is supplied for use In the case of Afenifere that has […]

Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, increasingly sounds like a man who has started something and is clueless how to finish it. He has blundered badly but is too ashamed to admit it. There’s no dignified […]

Just what was Hillary Clinton thinking when she avoided using the government email account system and instead adopted a private one during her tenure as secretary of state? We’re now being told by a slew […]

Transformation Agenda. That is the favourite buzz phrase of the Goodluck Jonathan administration. His ardent supporters want President Jonathan to continue in office for another four years so he can complete his revolutionary and historic […]

  Sometime, you wonder if Nigeria is not already at war with itself over the likely outcome of the 2015 general elections. It is not just about the hate speeches and denigrating documentaries that pervade […]

Corruption has been the bane of Nigeria’s political firmament even before the multi-ethnic state was granted independence by Great Britain in 1960. Foremost nationalist, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe as the then Premier of the Eastern Region […]

The eternal words of William Shakespeare ring true that the world is a mere stage where mortals are players who have an entry and exit route. The battle of life always has something at the […]

Akin Osuntokun’s “Buhari: Which South-west”, which appeared on this page the other week, threw up an interesting perspective on the real issues facing the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-west, with its fielding of […]

It has always been said that President Goodluck Jonathan is the most abused Nigerian president. This definitely is not in dispute. Apart from being called clueless and incompetent, he has always been the butt of […]

An astonishing piece of news from Cote d’Ivoire on Tuesday is presumably getting the whole of Africa to talk. Simone, wife of the former president of this intriguing West African country was sentenced to a […]

The meeting by the governors under the umbrella of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos may have come and gone but the dust generated by the issues raised may take a while to […]