Tinubu Expresses Fear Over Bloated Civil Service Payroll Obasanjo Reveals Truth About Yar'Adua’s Illness Niger reopens its airspace after a month of border lockdown Lagos State welcomes its Blue Line…
Read MoreTinubu Emerges as Chairman of ECOWAS DSS Dismisses Arrest Claims of Senator Yari over Refusing Tinubu's Call Court Orders Disclosure of Abacha Loot Spending Details by Obasanjo, Yaradua, Jonathan, and…
Read MoreNigerians on social media today are celebrating the memory of a former president, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who died in office on this day, ten years ago. The two-time Katsina Governor…
Read MoreIt has been 20 years since Nigeria returned to a hard-fought democratic system of government. Four since President Muhammadu Buhari, reinvented himself as a “converted democrat” in a well-received Chatham…
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Read MoreThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) does not have the full results of the highly controversial 2007 presidential election, The Cable reports. As reported on its website Wednesday, the news medium…
Read MoreThere are few events that can come to define a nation's identity quite like how it approaches elections. This is because elections expose the priorities and motives of the men…
Read MoreA former Speaker, House of Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba says all the Presidents since Nigerian went back to democratic rule in 1999, have been accidental. He is, therefore, referring to former…
Read Moreby 'Fisayo Soyombo In 2007, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was desperate to solve a conundrum that was nearly as old as Nigeria’s independence. It was an especially recalcitrant…
Read More“Can anyone please tell me where is our president?” This was one of the tweets that was posted with the hashtag #WhereIsBuhari which trended for two days on Twitter. Over…
Read MoreToday marks the seventh anniversary of the death of the second president in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Until his passing away that morning,…
Read MoreEditor When President Muhammadu Buhari on January 19 communicated a letter to the Senate informing them of his decision to proceed on a planned two-week medical vacation to the United Kingdom,…
Read Moreby Soma Oj. It was 2010. We had an ailing President. President Umaru Musa Yar'adua who was snuck out of the country to Germany where he was terminally ill while…
Read Moreby Wilfred Okiche “In the light of the foregoing, Magu has failed the integrity test and will eventually constitute a liability to the anti-corruption stand of the current government.” Thus…
Read Moreby Dolapo Adelana From the papers this morning - a Tracklist. “In 24 hours, the truth will be exposed” | Apostle Suleman responds to allegations (WATCH) - YNaija Obasanjo, Yar'Adua,…
Read Moreby Dolapo Adelana A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Adoke has written a letter to the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, declaring his innocence in the controversial…
Read MoreApparently, President Muhammadu Buhari and the late former president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua have more in common other than taking off in the middle of heated affairs for a vacation that…
Read Moreby Reuben Abati Public communication is one of the most delicate challenges that people in public life face, either in the corporate or the public sector. Many people suddenly find themselves…
Read MoreThis didn’t make as much of a splash as it should have. Understandable sha – it’s Nigeria after all, where the present has very little knowledge of its provenance. Dapo…
Read MoreArik, Nigeria’s largest airline, blamed the cancellation of all of its flights last week to a delay in getting insurance documentation as a result of the Sallah break. This left…
Read MoreIf I were addressing myself to the exclusive audience of a social science class seminar, the topic above would be more appropriately entitled the political economy of Nigeria-under which specialisation,…
Read MorePresident Muhammadu Buhari on Monday commissioned the Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail project. The president, in his speech, commended both the Yar'adua and Jonathan-led governments for conceiving and starting the project…
Read MorePresident Muhammadu Buhari is reportedly evaluating the gazette signed by late President Umaru Yar’Adua on the Niger Delta crisis. Buhari is expected to peruse and lift from the gazette, a…
Read Moreby Kolapio Olapoju A member of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has predicted that National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, would end…
Read Moreby Olusegun Adeniyi I am quite aware that religion and politics have so intertwined in Nigeria that there is hardly any public official who does not openly identify with one…
Read Moreby Kolapo Olapoju Following the political advert placed on the cover of Punch Newspaper, by the governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose, journalist, Tolu Ogunlesi has described the move as distasteful…
Read Moreby Oke Efagene Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido, will commence his retirement leave as from April 1, 2014, which is 2 months to the end…
Read Moreby Anwal Auwal 'We all know how we rig elections in this country. We compromise security agencies, we pay the electoral officials and party agents while on the eve of the…
Read Moreby Iyobosa Uwugiaren Obasanjo knew the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was suffering from a terminal ailment and may not be able to finish his tenure but he chose to impose…
Read Moreby Simon Kolawole If we believe in fairness, what is pepper soup for Yahaya should not be poison for Yohanna. As Nigeria gallops towards 100 years of amalgamation, one of…
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