Category: Politics

2023 Labour Party Presidential candidate Peter Obi via X wrote: “Nations Like Nigeria, Know What To Do To Prosper, But Just Can’t Do It. – James A. Robinson, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2024 “In July this year, the United Nations issued a frightening warning that 34 million Nigerians are at risk of hunger. This was...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, days before the White House’s deadline for Russia to reach a peace deal with Ukraine or potentially face severe economic penalties that could also hit countries buying its oil.The Kremlin did not immediately...

Lagos state Government has declared 176 estates as illegal for failing to secure mandatory layout approvals. The pronouncement, made by the Permanent Secretary of the Office of Physical Planning, Oluwole Sotire, gives the developers of these estates a 21-day ultimatum to regularize their documents or face sanctions. According to the statement, the estates, which were...

If you’re in the coalition, tone down your attacks on Atiku. Tone down your attacks on Obi. Tone down your attacks on Amaechi, and anyone else vying for the ticket. This is not the time to fight people for exercising their right to seek their party’s nomination. It’s time to lobby, negotiate, and work together,...

“I still find it baffling that my decision to do a term of four years, if given the mandate to rule this country, is generating so much agitation. By this feeling, we are doubting the fact that a sincere leader can achieve much in 48 months. “I have never been desperate in the pursuit of...

I returned to Anambra State in 2008 to meet a state and a people that were excited and upbeat. And they had every reason to be so happy. Anambra had two governors, in fact, those were the exact words of the master of ceremony at the first major function that I attended on my return...

The Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf has revealed final report from the fact-finding panel tasked to investigate the role of the state’s Commissioner for Transport, Ibrahim Namadi, in securing bail for an alleged notorious drug baron, Sulaiman Aminu Danwawu, has formally presented its findings to the government. On Monday, August 4th, 2025 the report...

Former Gombe State Governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, was quoted this week as expressing support and even went further to describe former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as an ultimate political leader in the North. For me as a citizen, stakeholder and practicing Muslim who traversed the length and breadth of the country, I want to totally...

When we tell you to hold your Governors accountable and demand for infrastructures and better life cause they affect you directly, you ignorantly and mischievously ask us if they are the ones that removed subsidies. May you not be so bittered to the point you loose your senses.Amen. Copied

 The Israeli Cabinet on Monday voted unanimously to fire the attorney general, escalating a long-running standoff between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the judiciary that critics see as a threat to the country’s democratic institutions. The Supreme Court froze the move while it considers the legality. Netanyahu and his supporters accuse Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of exceeding her...