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Bayelsa 2016: Will a dark horse succeed Dickson?

Indications are that between now and next year when gubernatorial poll will take place in Bayelsa State, much is bound to happen. The Peoples Democratic Party’s loss at the last general elections and festering interpersonal frictions with key personalities in the state may have truncated Governor Seriake Henry Dickson’s lone-star run. What remains to be known now is the likely dark horse that would be the beneficiary of what many critics perceive as the governor’s excesses.

NASS Leadership and Kwankwaso’s Bad Verses

The recent outburst by the former governor of Kano State, Alhaji Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, over the emergence of the National Assembly leadership, leaves no one in doubt that the development, especially the election of Senator Bukola Saraki and Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Senate’s presiding officers, has given him sleepless nights.

Joyful Homes: Coping with social pressure

For couples trusting God for children, they must be hopefully. With hope, faith and belief that “ With God all things are possible”, joy unspeakable will arrive at last.

ENUGU: Gov. Ugwuanyi’s peace and development initiatives

Just recently Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State played host to journalists in Enugu at the Government House to interact with them, brief them on his action plans for the state and also give an insight into his administration’s approach towards achieving a harmonious relationship amongst the political class in the state.

Why Ekweremadu’s re-election is in Order

Although the election of Senator Bukola Saraki as the President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu as his Deputy, and Hon. Yakubu Dogara as the Speaker of the House of Representatives have expectedly not gone down well with some quarters, it has been widely celebrated across the nation as democracy and independence of the legislature in action.

In defence of Oyegun

THE circumstances that surround the emergence of National Assembly presiding officers is testing the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to the limits.

Unfair treatment of workers is corruption

NIGERIAN workers like all other citizens live under same conditions, of providing their own power through electricity generators, water through bore holes, depend on the consulting medical offices we call hospitals,etc,but the difference is that their take home pay is usually too meager to provide for their basic needs

Your value is tied to Nigeria

One of the most annoying things that has happened to me since my boss left office as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the habit of some people to either egg me on or bait me to criticize the new administration of the President, Muhammadu Buhari.

2019 presidential periscope: Saraki, Atiku and Tinubu factors

SOME people may wonder why I will be talking about 2019, when the Eighth National Assembly has just been sworn-in and President Muhammadu Buhari has not even completed thirty days in office. That notwithstanding, smart politicians are already making calculations for 2019 and even 2023.

Edo PDP and Anenih: Deconstructing Osunbor’s unsavoury narrative

Former Governor of Edo State, Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor, in a two-page interview published at pages 46 and 47 of Vanguard edition of Monday, June 8, 2015, revisited a political past that should have been better forgotten when he spoke on the so-called money quarrel between him and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Anthony Anenih.

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