Politics

My dear Honourables, I hope you will excuse me for distracting you from your onerous duties, but I am a current sufferer – and I am not alone – from a persistent nightmare. That affliction […]

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) says a political party is bribing officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kogi state with $1,000 each to buy them over and get them to […]

Democracy is earning the power to govern through free, fair and credible elections. Nigeria is a democratic state, but the leadership recruitment process is largely undemocratic. Material and financial inducements determines victory, the security agencies […]

No fewer than 1.6 million eligible voters in Kogi state will file at the various polling booths on Nov.16 to elect one of the 24 candidates vying for the governorship position in the state. Public […]

Information coming from Edo State indicate that members of the State Executive Council of APC have passed vote of no confidence on Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of our party, APC. In so many respects, […]

Since President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law on November 4, 2019 the amendment to the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contracts Act, Cap D3, Laws of the Federation (LFN) 2004, it has become […]

Before Nigerian independence, the youths played a vital role in wrestling political power from our erstwhile colonial masters. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe established the Zik Group of Newspapers with the West African Pilot as it’s foremost […]

Hillary Clinton has said she is “under enormous pressure” to challenge US President Donald Trump in next year’s White House election. The former Democratic presidential nominee refused to rule it out, telling the BBC: “Never […]

The former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, fielded questions at the African Economic Congress in Abuja last week on the theme: “Building the Africa we want.” The former running mate to the Peoples Democratic […]

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Saturday mourned the death of Dr Ore Falomo, the late Personal Doctor of late Chief MKO Abiola. Tinubu, in a statement signed by Mr Tunde […]

Femi Adesina, special adviser media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari in a post-view of the 2019 Presidential election and the Supreme Court final verdict examines the various forces that gave Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the […]

After the Supreme Court threw out the legal challenge by Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on the February 2019 presidential poll last week, two things flashed across my mind. One was a […]

The presidency has released the statement below confirming that some aides of the vice president have been relieved of their position. President Muhammadu Buahri’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said in the statement that some “political appointments […]

The sacking of 35 aides of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday was the latest in the string of humiliations hurled at him by the Muhammadu Buhari presidency or better the cabal in the presidency. […]

The lawmaker representing Oyo State’s Egbeda/Ona Ara Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Akin Alabi, has said that, in a presidential system of government such as obtained in the United States and Nigeria, the […]

It is a kind of melodrama. And it has been building up for a while. There is however nothing to suggest that the script factored in the interest of residents and stakeholders of the nation’s […]

President Muhammadu Buhari should be commended, rather being condemned for his globetrotting, in search of investors. This is the view of Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State. He spoke to the Ismaila Chafe, the State […]

LAGOS – After months of legal battle between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its major opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the outcome of February 23, 2019 presidential election in which the […]

I do not know much about sports, but I know what good sportsmanship is. Diego Maradona, the Argentine football shaman, was a great player, but he is not celebrated as much as Pele of Brazil. […]