Politics

The last time Nigerians enjoyed something really close to an exciting Presidential debate was dur­ing the 1993 Presidential elections. I recall the colourful and memorable encounter between the late Chief MKO Abiola of the Social […]

There is no gainsaying that integrity of the presidential candidate of the All Progres­sives Congress (APC), Gen Muhammadu Buhari, is unblemished and unquestionable. De­spite his avowed incorruptible nature, however, some cynics still doubt his capacity […]

Godswill Akpabio has said that before he became the governor of Akwa Ibom State there were moments in his life he used to eat from dustbins. Mr. Akpabio’s shocking revelation is contained in an audio […]

The Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has joined a section of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, in drumming support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition. Assistant Editor LEKE SALAUDEEN examines the futility of the […]

My objective in this two-part series has been to review the balance-sheet of the two leading presidential candidates on the basis of their past records and present credentials. While some distinguished Nigerians have expressed their […]

    The forthcoming election is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria in terms of issues that have been thrown up in the build up to the election. Apart from the fact that the election […]

I have a message for President Goodluck Jon­athan which is a follow up to the one I sent him a few years ago on the death sentence passed on Major Al Mustapha. The message as […]

Chief Great Ogboru is the Governorship candidate of Labour Party in Delta State. In this interview with CORRESPONDENT, FELIX IGBEKOYI , the governorship candidate of Democratic Peoples  Party (DPP),  in the 2011 general election talks […]

The drumbeats reminis­cent of those heard be­fore the Nigerian civil war are again sounding. They are discordant and sometimes frightening. One sometimes can­not decipher whether we are pre­paring for an election or a war. On […]

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has described the wife of the president, Dame Patience Jonathan as “an incredibly crude woman” but thanked Nigerians for putting up with her. The party also urged […]

This month, all things being equal and very few things are actually equal, there will be election. Meanwhile, Nigeria is slowly grinding to a halt. Law enforcement agents have turned into party thugs. The powers […]

  Arising from a production clanger on the edition of Saturday, 28th February 2015, readers of THISDAY backpage were treated to an unusual North/South dichotomy. The Lagos/Southern edition was regular and correct in its production […]

NUMEROUS media reports have surfaced indicating that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) got N7 billion to enlist pastors to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan and campaign against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress […]

A BATTLEGROUND is a place where an election will be keenly contested between two or more major political parties or their candidates. Of Nigeria’s three traditional “tripod zones” where the nation’s demographic ethnic majorities live […]

The Director General of Progressive Friends Foundation (PFF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), devoted to the pursuance of good governance, Chief Pat. Ifeanyi Oramah, has frowned at the criticisms that have followed the recent rescheduling of […]

Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has predicted that Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari will be elected on 28 March as Nigeria’s new president, to succeed incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan. At the same time, he dismissed fears […]

Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s first lady, has appealed to Nigerian women to vote en masse for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the forthcoming presidential election because the brain of Muhammadu Buhari, the party’s opponent, is […]

Up until the primary election of the All Progressives Congress, Nigerians bore the psychological hazard visited on them by the Peoples Democratic Party well. In the hours leading to Buhari’s emergence at the APC convention, […]

“I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president undermine a current president; I think it’s bad for the presidency for that matter. “Secondly, I really have had all the fame I […]