Home | Politics

Politics

image

Airhiavbere: I Will Ensure Even Development in Edo

What is wrong with Edo State that informed your governorship ambition? My heart has been in Edo and, having served at NIPSS, Kuru, Jos, I discovered
Full story
image

National Conference: Now or Never?

  With the current state of the nation, eminent Nigerians, have again unanimously re-echoed the need for the convocation of a national conference to address the...
Full story
image

$3 million Bribe: I Don’t Know What to Think of Farouk

  ALhaji Abubakar Tsav came to national renown as a fearless Police Officer. The erstwhile Commissioner of Police in Lagos State has carried on with his...
Full story
image

Farouk Lawan Suspended By Nigerian House of Representatives

  The plenary session of the Nigerian House of Representative has suspended Farouk Lawan from the house and referred his case to the Ethics Committee of...
Full story
image

POLITICAL METABOLISM: Christian Faith On your knees please!

Praying for those in authority is one of the basic injunctions of the Christian Faith. The early Christian missionary, Paul who was originally...
Full story
image

How Pa Adekunle Ajasin endorsed me

AHEAD of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, gubernatorial primaries in Ondo State, a governorship aspirant under the party’s platform, Akinola Awodeyi-Akinsheyinwa, in this interview,...
Full story
image

Judicial Activist Group says Jonathan must end impunity in governance

Nigeria cannot truly celebrate its forthcoming independence anniversary because the most Nigerians are still not free from official high-handedness and insecurity, a judicial activist group,...
Full story
image

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole conferred with three honours

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has been conferred with an honorary membership of the 3rd Regular Course of the Nigerian Defence Academy Alumni Association for...
Full story
image

President Goodluck Jonathan lambastes politicians

President Goodluck Jonathan, has lambasted those lobbying for ministerial appointments, saying less than 10 per cent of them are genuine. He disclosed this...
Full story
image

Obasanjo justifies preference for Jonathan’s candidacy

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has vowed that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party would do everything to get all the states in the South West zones from...
Full story

Merry go round in Ogun

BY DAUD OLATUNJI It has been a popular prediction that the ruling ACN in Ogun State would one day suffer some internal implosion on account of...

Anambra PDP: Peace on the horizon

BY VINCENT UJUMADU The crisis ridden Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has apparently run out of options in finding neutral political mediators...

Why I’ll never speak ill of Akpabio – Pastor James

BY LAJA THOMAS The Chancellor of Akpabio Centre for Leadership Development, ACLD, Pastor Bassey James is one of the most vocal enthusiasts of the developmental strides...

Why Buhari, Tinubu set aside differences – Obono-Obla

By Johnbosco  Agbakwuru Barrister Okoi Obono-Obla before his foray into the murky waters of politics was a human rights activist. Presently the Assistant National Secretary of...

INSECURITY: Why we must decentralize security now – Igini

BY CHARLES KUMOLU LAWYER, activist, Mike Igini is the Cross River State Resident Electoral Commissioner. In this interview, he called for the decentralization of the policing...

Nigerian Governors Forum: Moment of Truth

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Nigeria’s 36 governors gather today to choose a chairman to pilot the affairs of their forum for the next two years....

Ebonyi ‘ll soon overtake other S/East states – Sen Ogbuoji

By Peter Okutu Senator Sonni Ogbuoji representing Ebonyi South senatorial district in the Senate in this interview bares his mind on the imperative of the passage...

A presidency recharged!

BY EMMANUEL AZIKEN No one can say tomorrow, Simon Peter, one of the top associates of Jesus warned, when he wrote that “a day with the...

Achebe: The politics, and persuasions of a prolific writer

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Prof. Chinua Achebe was a literary giant who used the power of erudition to project persuasive and powerful political points. Little is...

Northern Elders Forum To Take Nigeria Government To International Court

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria’s government of human rights violations, according to...

President Jonathan orders release of detained suspected Boko Haram members

As the military offensive to dismantle Boko Haram terrorists activities and the camps in North East Nigeria continues, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the release...