President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, re-submitted the name of an 82 year old ambassadorial nominee from Imo State, Justice Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor who was earlier rejected...
More than five months after the Senate rejected a $29.96 billion loan request from President Muhammadu Buhari, the Red Chamber, on Wednesday, made a U-turn, following...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… It’s great that after much dillydallying President Buhari has finally summoned the intestinal and testicular fortitude to “suspend” “cash-and-carry” SGF Babachir David...
The interest of the nation and Buhari’s personal interests intersect at this point and a single action would serve both interests well. This single action is...
By Reuben Abati… When last week, President Muhammadu Buhari decided to suspend the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the...
The suspension of the Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal by President Muhammadu Buhari, did not come to many as a...
The ongoing peace talks between the Senate and the Executive may still be deadlocked, despite the suspension of Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal....
Born October 2, 1954, the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) was appointed on August 27, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari. He attended...
Contrary to its promise that it will pass the 2017 budget on or before the end of March, the Senate, last Tuesday again, failed to pass...
By Pius Adesanmi… Those who are confounded or surprised that the stash of cash found in Ikoyi – we have at least, hopefully, gone beyond the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is hopeful of replicating the success it has made in the area of security and...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has described the fight against corruption as a tough battle and that corruption “fights in back and fights very fiercely”. He...
By Bayo Oluwasanmi… The political landscape in the senate is littered with dubious merchandising acts by terrifyingly corrupt and unrepentant pimping senators. I feel helpless not...
One of the greatest selling points of President Muhammadu Buhari which led Nigerians to choose him at the expense of an incumbent during the 2015 general...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… President Muhammadu Buhari and Senate President Bukola Saraki are at loggerheads again, and Buhari apologists are erecting annoyingly false Manichean binaries between...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Not many had expected the judicial outcome of some of the cases brought against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before courts,...
By Farooq Kperogi- What’s all these annoyingly false Manichean binaries people are erecting between an “evil” National Assembly and a “benign” Aso Rock! Both Aso bRock...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved appointments into the executive management of some government agencies and parastatals. According to a statement by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser...
Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Giving an insight into the severity of his illness on returning from his medical vacation, President Muhammadu Buhari revealed that he had blood transfusions...
The presidency and the Senate, may be heading for another fresh showdown, over the refusal of the latter to approve a $200 million World Bank loan...
Some N481bn may have been stolen from the 2016 budget through padding, according to the content of a letter written by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project,...
By Femi Adesina… I learnt an enduring lesson on the day General Sani Abacha died. It was June 8, 1998, and death had laid its icy...
The office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) is now in possession of the Department of State Security (DSS) report that sealed the fate of...
Mr President Sir, SAVE OUR SOUL; A CRY OF AGONY FROM THE ARMY OF VICTIMS OF MALADMINISTRATION IN KOGI STATE Greetings and best wishes from the...
President Muhammadu Buhari has decried the wanton killing of Nigerians in different parts of the country, and directed security agencies to fish out the perpetrators. “We...
By Joseph Edgar… It is not as much as what he wrote but exactly the thoughts behind the memo and his expected objective. Furthermore, I am...
Pictures don’t tell lies! President Muhammadu Buhari made a majestic return to office on Monday. It was his first day at work after a 50-day absence...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has given the credit recorded during his stint as acting president to his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari. Osinbajo while speaking with state...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday resumed duties at the State House Abuja. The president who had taken an extended medical leave which lasted about 50 days on resumption...
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state is obviously not convinced that President Muhammadu Buhari is hale and hearty, as claimed by the presidency. The governor has...
A group operating under the umbrella of Concerned Nigerians has asked the Buhari-led administration to brace up for mass protests if by March 18, ailing President...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday engaged King Mohammed VI of Morocco in a telephone chat when the Moroccan monarch called him up. A Moroccan news website...
Senators on the Foreign Affairs committee, were on Wednesday, left speechless during the screening of an 82 year old ambassadorial nominee whose name was recently forwarded...
The Nigerian Government says there are indications that the Nigerian economy is well on its way out of recession considering the 2016 overall and last quarter...
On Monday, the loud murmurings of several weeks on social media finally caught the attention of the presidency. The issue had been the quiet but sometime...
By Charles Dickson… “Our wife, our wife”: come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is. Did you hear…”Osinbajo is very presidential, he has...
Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, over the weekend, gave hint of his future political plans, stating unequivocally that he would contest for an elective post in 2019...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu has missed out on the list of people the president has called from...
The management of Nigeria’s electoral processes came up for sharp criticism Thursday when Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
By Louis Odion… Half a century ago, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu of the January 15 coup fame sneaked into the national lexicon the term “ten percenter” to...
The unending drama over President Buhari’s health status continued on Wednesday with claims that the ailing president spoke with Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State. Obviously...
The presidency in a terse statement Tuesday said that President Muhammadu Buhari needed more rest as results of the various medical tests conducted on him indicated...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday evening met with Senate President Bukola Saraki in London, United Kingdom. The president who made this known on his twitter handle,...
Security staff at the Abuja House in London yesterday called in policemen to arrest a correspondent of The Guardian who was on the premises to see...
By Sonala Olumhense….On August 1, 2015, two months after President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office, I reflected on the need for a vibrant communication strategy that would...
By Joseph Edgar… Let me come out straight and not leave any one in doubt that this article is strictly in support of the President Muhammad...
There are strong indications that the Nigeria Governors’ Forum may send some governors to the United Kingdom to visit President Muhammadu Buhari, except the President returns...
By Okey Ndibe… There’s a chance that President Muhammadu Buhari would have come back to Nigeria by the time you read this column, but the fact...
By SOC Okenwa… The Ogidigborigbo of Oghara, James Onanefe Ibori, the kleptocratic ex-Governor of the oil-rich Delta State, returned home from London recently. Ibori had spent...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… Doublespeak is intentional manipulation of language to conceal uncomfortable truths or to cleverly tell outright lies. The term came to us from...
