Politics

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 […]

IT is now stale news that Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro is now an “Honorable” Minister. Two weeks ago, I speculated that knowing the ruling party and its undistinguished senators, Obanikoro’s confirmation as a minister was a […]

Picture a severely skewed news story bearing the newspaper Daily Editor’s byline and the curious tag: “With political intelligence unit reports.” Picture how ridiculous it must be to witness the metamorphosis of presumed intellect into […]

  “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” _¯ Mahatma Gandhi The much-awaited year 2015 is just unfurling with the month of March, the third in the year, nearly getting to […]

If desperation and divine malady Desperation must be the first rule in hell. There must be an infernal mandate that requires a man who craves something badly to go after his heart’s desire with the […]

Peter Ajayi is the National Coordinator of the Salvage Group, which comprises professionals in the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview with Deputy Political Editor RAYMOND MORDI, he speaks on the general elections and […]