Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, yesterday slammed Northern leaders calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to convene a fresh National Conference.

The Immediate-past President Goodluck Jonathan, has left his country home, Otuoke in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

As controversy continues to trail the purported relocation of the Aso Villa Chapel and perhaps the mosque by President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerians have continued to express mixed reactions over the plan.

Members of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) in Onitsha, Anambra State have said that the clampdown on its members by security agents would not silence the movement until the Biafra state is actualised.

Representative of Nigerian Children’s Parliament, Aisha Ibrahim said Nigerian children are yet to commend the efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari administration until resolutions for better protection of children were implemented and the Chibok girls returned.

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo disclosed in Abuja on Tuesday that the federal government was planning to use a zero-based budgeting format for its 2016 budget planning.

A recent New York Times survey showed that 43% of Americans think President Obama is Muslim. Some people just can’t be helped. Some people, for all intents and purposes, will remain ignorant and perhaps that’s just the way of the world. Some people will continue to judge others based on gender or ethnicity. Some people will think political appointments “maketh” the man or that having someone from your village at the helm of affairs will necessarily translate to your betterment (although it’s yet to truly happen).

IT is not uncommon for Nigerian politicians to make a norm of the abnormal and by that pretend to be making some profound statement. These politicians who many times cannot think outside the box are too quick to copy habits and ways they know nothing about. I say this in the wake of criticisms that have been levelled against state governors yet to constitute their cabinets by appointing commissioners.

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Paris, France, told the French business community and investors that there was more to Nigeria that just oil exploration.

IT has been repeated in recent times that the problem with President Muhammadu Buhari appointing his supposed sister or sister-in-law, Mrs. Amina Zakari, to head the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has nothing to do with her qualifications but rather the moral burden of having his sister or sister in-law presiding over elections in which […]

Nigeria’s determination to rout out insurgency has got boosted by a commitment by French government to support the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) with intelligence gathering and high tech military equipment.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has again taken a swipe at the All Progressives Congress, APC and President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that the economy has remained on rapid fall since the last four months.

“The fight against corruption mobilizes all of us because we want to do away with evil and injustice. But we should remember that casting the bad into the sea does not imply the sudden appearance on our shores of the good that we need.”

National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, NPMCN, weekend faulted President Muhammadu Buhari over the dissolution of Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, saying, the dissolution will not only promote quackery in the health sector but will also allow cases of malpractices to continue unabated.

President Buhari turned down the idea of bail-out at first. I must confess to being one of those who thought a bail-out was inevitable – given the empty purses most states were holding. However, it was my position that the states arrived at the same position through different routes. Some took sensible risks which backfired when the price of crude oil tumbled and the monthly revenue allocation from Abuja declined dangerously.