Last week threw up a relatively unknown quantity, Sunday Igboho, into Nigeria’s political landscape. While at that, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stirred...
The most dominant piece of news past week was, perhaps, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s face-off with Fulani herders who had made Ondo forest reserves home. This week’s...
Buhari’s introspection on his administration is a major feature on QuickRead, as we review key political developments shaping the future of Nigeria. Beyond President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
Year 2020 breasted the finishing line with some interesting political developments. In this QuickRead, we review former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s admonitions to Nigerians to stop blaming...
In this week’s QuickRead, there is no missing the daring political shots fired from familiar quarters last week. These include the frontal attack by the Bishop...
The Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Director-General, Salihu Lukman has described the All Progressives Congress (APC) as being radically different from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He...
In QuickRead this week, we take a shot at the critical statements credited to Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, and Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF),...
The nation was largely in mourning last week due to the cold blooded massacre of some farmers in Zabarmari, Borno State. A few other stories made...
Last week was filled with attention-grabbing political events. They included the suit against 50 EndSARS supporters by a supposed activist, Kenechukwu Okeke, and the naming of...
The aftermath of the #EndSARS protests remained the central issue of national discourse as the week wore off. Among these were Desmond Elliot’s self-inflicted wahala and...
Some incredible events dominated the political space last week, and the country won’t forget them in a hurry. They were some of the outcomes of the...
Ambassador Hussani Coomassie has suggested that President Muhammadu Buhari should employ the use of force to quench the ongoing protests against police brutality in many parts...
Welcome to a review of leading political events of last week. First, three lawyers, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Eyitayo Jegede of...
Last week was a memorable one for Nigeria, with the country clocking 60 years after independence from colonial rule. However, rather than engage in revelry of...
Nigeria’s political landscape was dotted with some memorable developments last week. First, was the return of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to power in Edo State....
Two related events grabbed maximum attention last week. They were the campaign rhetorics dished by Nigeria’s leading political parties ahead of the Edo gubernatorial poll, and...
Two former Presidents of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, could not hold back their thoughts on recent events in the country. While Obasanjo, though not...
The burden of responsibility thrust President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the centre stage last week. While Buhari angered the populace by supervising...
It is difficult to miss out on how former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, cast themselves on the political scene...
Last week had its exciting moments. However, six stories made our pick. Top of the pack include the strong reservations expressed by the Christian Association of...
We return this week with some of the most exciting stories that made headlines last week. These include Femi Adesina telling Nigerians to ‘calm down’ in...
Last week, like the preceding ones, came with a lot of exciting stories. Among them include President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration that he had done his best...
Violent attacks in the northern part of Nigeria in just one week, between July 18 to 24, saw no less than 142 people killed, a report...
Last week was full of exciting stories but six made our pick. Top of the pack include the seeming contrived drama by Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, Acting...
The Nigerian government has hinted at stopping its N-Power programme under which it employs and pays stipends to some unemployed Nigerians. The government said that it...
Joi Nunieh’s claim of giving the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, a taste of Port-Harcourt girls for s*xually harassing her, as well as Vice...
Welcome to Quick Read. The arrest and suspension of Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); political mudslinging in Edo, among...
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has said President Muhammadu Buhari was not the greatest threat to Nigeria’s unity. According to the minister, those who...
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari for not addressing a national broadcast over coronavirus confirmation in Nigeria. The deadly disease was confirmed...
There are palpable fears as the Supreme Court will Monday (today) hear the application for the review of the apex court ruling that sacked Emeka Ihedioha...
Former Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sanu has agreed with President Muhammadu Buhari that majority of Nigerians who fall victims of insurgency are Muslims. The senator, meanwhile,...
“I was taken aback by what is happening in the North West and other parts of the country. During our campaigns, we knew about the Boko...
From Nigeria’s seat of power, one of the talking points last week was President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on the country’s ability to end the insurgency war...
Past week was, indeed, one of celebration in Aso Rock, the Nigerian seat of power. It was a week President Muhammadu Buhari could not hide his...
Senator Hope Uzodinma, on Tuesday, January 14, emerged as the governor of Imo State. The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Mohammed, led a seven-man panel...
There was no escaping the pictures. Hanan, Buhari’s daughter, had caused a stir with images of her descending the presidential jet and waving at some mass...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday reacted to reports that he was under pressure to contest the 2023 presidential election. Reports of some people mounting presure...
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the suspension of the Managing Director of Rural Electricity Agency (REA), Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi be reversed. The Minister of Power, Engineer...
The national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A post...
Nigeria got a bit of bashing here and there past week. Perhaps, not the sort that President Muhammadu Buhari would have loved to witness on his...
The dust raised by a section of the Nigerian media to address President Muhammadu Buhari as a ‘Major General,’ a ‘Dictator’ might not settle soon. But...
Perhaps, no other story attracted as much attention last week as the drama orchestrated by the Department of State Security (DSS), an agency under the watchful...
The Minister of Transport and former governor of Rivers, Rotimi Amaechi has claimed that he had never collected a kobo as pension from his state government....
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said climate change was steadily taking a toll on income of families as farm lands get narrowed with desert encroachments....
President Muhammadu Buhari last week sparked public concerns when he returned to the Nigerian Senate on Thursday to seek approval to borrow additional $29.96 billion loans....
The Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo (SAN) has again said that nobody should be punished for insulting public officers or criticising government. He was...
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has given conditions under which he would support the controversial hate speech bill. The controversial former minister said he...
President Muhammadu Buhari shot straight from the hips last week. In doing so, he expressed concern over the failure of constituency projects, inserted into the country’s...
The perceived soured relationship between President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo dominated national discourse last week. It has been so for a while. The...
A former lawmaker –turned social critic, Shehu Sani, on Friday reacted angrily to the Federal Government’s recent attempts to trample on the rights of the citizens....
