General Mohammadu Buhari’s acceptance speech as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, showed a strategic deployment of words by the former Head of State to project himself in a new and acceptable light.

After more than 20 hours of an unprecedented live broadcast of democracy at play at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, the nation’s leading opposition political party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, came up with Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as its presidential candidate. The choice was so transparently done that one of the nation’s leading political veterans present at the occasion, Atiku Abubakar, remarked it as the most transparent process ever in the nation’s history by a political party in choosing its presidential flag bearer

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressive Congress (APC)-the two major Nigerian political parties have concluded their primaries to select flag bearers for the 2015 general elections. While many analysts have bothered about the appropriateness of the use of “consensus” or the role of money in the high-wire tension-soaked political process, the focus of this piece, is on political succession against the backdrop of a tradition where leaders often worked against their immediate aides at elections. Before the recently concluded primaries, there were strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan would sacrifice his deputy, Namadi Sambo. Many had thought that as part of negotiating his way through the many booby traps, the President might be pressured to pick a new Vice, just to calm some frayed nerves. It is a great sign of dexterity that he did not do that. While commending him for the approach, it is hoped that if he is re-elected, he would hold-on to that level of matured leadership while selecting his aides and cabinet.

Tension is mounting at the Presidency and the core North over the court case challenging the eligibility of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2015 presidential election.

The President of the Christian  Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, says insurgency persists in some parts of the country due to pretence by some Nigerians and refusal to speak the truth.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has condemned last week’s terrorist attacks in Kano and Jos.

“Once again, those who seek to influence our way of life, modify our faith and our most sacred core values, have struck, leaving in their wake lives brutally cut short, limbs badly broken and dreams forced to fade away”, Buhari said in a statement, last night.

THE Warri Study Group (WSG) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to cancel a Federal Government contract awarded to Global West Vessel Service to secure Nigerian coastline, citing the contracts content and the company’s link to an ex-militant leader as threat to national security.

Black Friday, cyber Monday and don’t know about you but if the last couple of days has been nothing to go by, then last Thursday is definitely a super Thursday. Well, for our politicians and those who have a stake in their progress or lack of? To be honest, it was predictive; a two horse race. There was a lot of horse-trading, double dealing, political musical chairs and defections. Threats, legal wrangling, and innuendos, bargaining, pleading, begging and blaming.

16-year-old Jolade (surname withheld) didn’t know she had been dating a suspected cult member until the unexpected happened to her.

THE end might not be heard yet of the purported suspension of a district overseer of the Foursquare Gospel Church for allegedly shunning a leadership conference organised by the church headquarters. Addressing newsmen in his church office in Ikorodu, Lagos, Rev. Isaac Adeyemi of Livingspring Tabernacle, Ikorodu, described the letter of suspension allegedly published in national dailies and the various allegations heaped on him as “outright lies, maliciously concocted and baseless.”

The Psalms, in which David was lamenting the deaths of Saul, the king of Israel, and his son, Jonathan, made this headline popular. But the headline also applies to the gubernatorial primaries of the two dominant political parties – PDP and APC – across the states which saw anointed aspirants losing the tickets for the 2015 polls. For instance, in Ebonyi State, the candidate of Governor Martins Elechi, a former Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, lost the PDP ticket. Adamawa State Governor James Bala Ngilari lost the ticket to a former EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu, while in Lagos State, a former minister, Musiliu Obanikoro, was floored by Mr Jimi Agbaje. Sokoto State deputy governor, Mukhtar Shagari, was denied the ticket.

The Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, Mr. Benjamin Dikki says Nigeria requires fresh injection of about $113 billion in six years for the development of three critical sectors of the nation’s economy, namely Oil and Gas, Power and Transport.

Thursday, December 11, 2014 is another day residents of Jos, Plateau State capital will not forget in a hurry as twin blasts rocked the city.

The newly established Institute of Technology and Management (ITM) by the Cross River State government yesterday matriculated its first set of students..

Former Governor Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja will definitely not fizzle out of Oyo State politics, due to several variables which he created and the ones he does not have control over. The first is that he has a large number of political followership in the state, thanks to his Accord Party which won seats at the state and national assemblies. The other factor is the ubiquitous challenges that former governors face in terms of performance in office. In this interview, he bares his mind on the orgy of violence in Oyo State, life at 70, governance in the state since he left office and his reasons for planning to come back to Agodi Government House, Ibadan having emerged as the gubernatorial candidate of his party ahead of 2015.

I can’t marry my colleague! Boring living in the same house with someone you know his job so well as well as his income! Should you be more popular or get richer than the man, then you are in trouble as this could be dangerous. If you are on six figures and he is on less, there is trouble. Men and their egos!”