Politics

The United States electoral system faced a gargantuan challenge in 2000 when George Bush Jr, the then Governor of Texas and Al Gore, the then US Vice-President squared up in the presidential elections. Gore, the […]

Hope Uzodinma, governor of Imo state, has asked the supreme court to dismiss the application filed by Emeka Ihedioha, demanding a review of the judgement that led to his removal. In January, the apex court […]

Timipre Sylva, minister of state for petroleum, says the mandate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state will be restored. Sylva said this in reaction to the sack of David Lyon as governor-elect […]

The Bayelsa governorship election voided by the Nigerian Supreme Court on Thursday last week has provoked a conversation on the metastasis of the cancer of identity theft in Nigeria and the country’s place in this […]

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, sacked David Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as governor-elect of Bayelsa State, barely 24 hours to his inauguration. Mr Lyon, who won the November 2019 governorship election, was […]

Jide Ojo Last Thursday, the Independent National Electoral Commission wielded the big stick by deregistering 74 political parties in one fell swoop. This is unprecedented and not a few Nigerians are happy with INEC’s decision […]

John Alechenu, John Ameh, Friday Olokor, Ade Adesomoju, Success Nwogu, Oladimeji Ramon, Daniels Igoni and Armstrong Bakam The Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress governorship candidate David Lyon’s hope of assumption of office on Friday (today) […]

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Duoye Diri cannot be sworn in as governor on Friday. The Supreme Court had nullified the […]

The famous Ahiara Declaration drew quite some flak from not a few quarters, in Biafra. Depending on the angle of the various spectra, from which each war-weary Biafran viewed the document (and on who exactly […]

Like a headmaster to his errant schoolboy, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has warned his predecessor and national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to comport himself whenever he comes […]

Predictions, well, some call it prophecies, are not an exact science. Is it an art? Or a spiritual gift? Albert Einstein once said that ‘occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction […]

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown – A line from the play, King Henry the Fourth (Part Two), by William Shakespeare. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ex- two-term Lagos governor and chieftain of the […]

The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi stirred the hornet’s nest in an interview he granted Daily Trust Newspaper at the weekend when he spoke inconvenient truth about the state of affairs in the […]

Where is former Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode? This is the question bombarding the mind of many. Ever since he left office in an unceremonial manner, the former governor has chosen to retire to a […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday accused the Supreme Court under the leadership of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad of having been compromised by the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government. The accusation […]

Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, said in an interview with Channels Television that laws are not made in the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation. Akeredolu, who was reacting to the pronouncement of […]