Politics

Mr. President, Fellow Heads of State and Government, Mr. Secretary-General, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my country, Nigeria, I congratulate you Mr. President on your election and Mr. Gutteres on his first General Assembly outing as our Secretary-General. I assure you both of my country’s solidarity and …

What would have been the first meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday to be presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari after 103 days of medical vacation in London has been cancelled. The cancellation of the weekly FEC meeting, which held every Wednesday when Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo held sway …

Dino Melaye A total of 188, 580, electorate from Kogi West have signed the recall register form of Senator Dino Melaye. Announcing the figure at the All progressives Congress State Secretariat in Lokoja, the returning officer for the recall of the serving senator, Adamu Yusuf explained that out of 360,098 …

The Lagos State Government on Monday said that it paid a total of N1, 846, 396, 965.80 as pension from May 31, 2016 to April 30, 2017. The state Commissioner for Establishment, Training and Pensions, Dr. Akintola Benson-Oke, made the disclosure at the 2017 Ministerial Press Briefing to mark Governor …

Saraki Arguably one of the most influential politician at the moment, a submission President Muhammadu Buhari recently affirmed at a public gathering. But curiously, every attempt to deconstruct Senate President Bukola Saraki has only further unveiled his positive politics and development inclination. Olawale Olaleye takes an introspective look at this …

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with former head of state, General Yakubu Gowon at the Presidential Villa. Speaking to State House Correspondents after the meeting, the former head of state said he came to welcome back the president from his medical vacation in the UK and thanked  God for bringing …

We are peeved with the media trial of the suspects of the recent communal clash in Ile- Ife because the media trial by Nigeria Police Force looks like height of affront and assault to the collective integrity and value of the Yoruba people. In this vein, as the face of …

The Managing Director of Ontario Oil and Gas Limited, Mrs. Ada Ugo-Ngali, fainted on Friday at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja after being convicted of N754m oil subsidy scam by the court. Ugo-Ngali, who had stood in the dock while Justice Lateefa Okunnu was delivering judgment in a …

A foremost South West traditional ruler, the Awujale, Oba S.K Adetona, has rubbished the eight year rule of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, describing it as eight wasted years. Adetona, an ally of Obasanjo, in his book; ‘Awujale: The Autobiography of Alaiyeluwa Oba S.K Adetona, Ogbagba II’, accused the former president …

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has alleged that a cabal of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is out to destroy Nigeria’s democracy. In a statement issued by his media aide, Lere Olayinka, the governor noted that should the “APC cabal” succeed in destroying the nation’s democracy “no one will …