Politics

Former Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State said on Tuesday said he surpassed other past governors in the state in terms of infrastructural development and service delivery during his eight years in office. The former […]

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, says the manner in which operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested Omoyele Sowore within court premises is unacceptable. […]

Moving impeachment proceedings to the Senate by Christmas, of the most anti-democratic U.S. president in modern history, would not only be unwise, It would be sheer folly. Trump’s band of enablers and the generality of […]

Godfatherism is a nasty and cynical phenomenon that has existed from time immemorial in every facet of human endeavor. However, in politics, it is a sui generis practice because it involves some tricks, intrigues and […]

To correct the current defects in Nigeria’s liberal democracy is to apply more democracy. To dismantle the current ruling APC behemoth and halt the slide of Nigeria into a one party fascist state is for […]

The travails of the former governor of Abia State, who turned the Senate’s Chief Whip, Orji Kalu, began way back before he ended his tenure as governor of the state. He was the Peoples Democratic […]

Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, has appeared at the federal capital territory (FCT) high court in Maitama to sign his witness deposition in support of the N2.5 billion libel suit filed against Lauretta Onochie, an aide […]

There has been some disquiet in Edo State and indeed, in the country over the palpable lack of rapprochement between the former governor of Edo State and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), […]

The term “first 100 days” was coined by Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States during a radio broadcastabout 86 years ago (precisely on July 24, 1933). Roosevelt never knew at […]

When we juxtapose the idealism of the legislative arm of government in Nigeria, vis-à-vis the preponderances of unenforceable pieces of Acts of Parliament, and the needless ambiguity in the literary interpretation of certain provisions of […]

Our attention has been drawn to a Sunday Sun publication of October 25, 2019 in which Alhaji Sule Lamido claimed that former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan traded off the Bayelsa elections in order to escape […]

The weaponisation of electoral geography has become very scientific. They derail the opposition by frightening them into staying at home during elections. Those brave enough to come out are attacked by thugs, thus suppressing their […]

Lagos lawmakers probing former governor of the state, Akinwunmi Ambode, over the purchase of 820 buses as part of the Bus Reform Project during his administration on Wednesday said the suit he filed against them […]

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is still savouring what he believes to be the affirmation of his electoral victory by a Court of Appeal but the good people of Oyo State are still waiting […]

The 2007 general election conducted by INEC under the supervision of Maurice Iwu is, perhaps, one of the most fraudulent in Nigeria’s electoral history. Human Rights Watch said this about that election: ‘’Instead of guaranteeing […]

Oluseun Onigbinde, Director of BudgIT, has said that Nigeria’s electoral system has derailed. Onigbinde said this following Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi and Bayelsa states. The election recorded a high rate of violence and electoral […]

The Buhari-Osibanjo administration should rise up to lessen the present excruciating suffering Nigerians are going through. Both President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osibanjo received certificates of return after they were declared winners of […]

I think despite his sterling performance…Morales should not have run for a fourth term in office, especially after losing a February 2016 constitutional amendment to remove term limits. But the irony is that the same […]