Contrary to his public posturing, former President Olusegun Obasanjo wanted and actually worked for the elongation of tenure of office in 2006/2007. Former Defence Minister and Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Theophilus...
The Benue State Election Tribunal sitting in Makurdi on Saturday annulled the election of the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark. The Chairman of the five-member Tribunal, Justice C.I. Uriri, who read out the...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), yesterday, quizzed the immediate past Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke, and his wife, Onari, over their disbursement of a...
Governor Ohakim Begins Moves to Decamp to PDPBy Roy ChikwemThe Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) has emerged as a powerful political party since they won the gubernatorial elections in 2007. The PPA was formed by the...
The failure that was the hallmark of the 2007 elections has come to the judiciary for salvation going by the judgments, which culminated yesterday with the removal of the Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris by...
By Godson OgheneochukoJust when one thinks he or she has heard the worst that could happen in this country of ours, some other news seemingly crops out from nowhere to knock one off his saddle. I'm sorry to...
Fresh fact has emerged that the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo spent $16bn on Nigeria’s epileptic power sector and not $10bn earlier reported by the media. The Speaker of the House of...
The craze to travel abroad by all means arguably became a noticeable fad in Nigeria about 20 years ago, when unemployed graduates, prostitutes and school drop-outs began to explore every crooked method of finding their...
By Reuben Abati"I am so angry if I see that fellow called Senator Nuhu Aliyu, I will call him a coward and an irresponsible fellow to his face. Being a Senator does not give him the right to take Nigerians for...
President Umaru Yar’Adua and Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday argued that the responses of the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu, to the 27 questions by Alhaji...
Being a paper delivered by Osita Chidoka, Corps Marshal & Chief Executive, Federal Road Safety Commission, at the University of Nigeria Alumni Association, Abuja Branch, Dance/Award Night on Tuesday, December...
By Dr. Christopher Odetunde“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another,” –...