INTRODUCTION to this analysis on the election of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and its aftermaths last Friday is premised on the following assumptions and axioms:

• There was an election called, and conducted for the governors.

•...

REACTIONS have continued to trail weekend election of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) and the aggregate view is that of bewilderment, disappointment, fear and condemnation.

Among those who spoke to The Guardian are: Lagos lawyers Femi...

IT has been observed over the years that politics and other issues unduly contend for space alongside the push for real continental integration. And always the issues thrown up with trumpeting and drumming do remain in the halls of debate, only to...

Jonathan’s 2015 Ambition Will Destroy Nigeria

DR. Junaid Mohammed, medical doctor turned politician, convener of the Coalition of Concerned Northern Politicians is a Second Republic member of the House of Representatives. He spoke to John...

Eddie Mbadiwe, representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency of Imo State in the House of Representatives on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Deputy Chairman of House Committee on National Security, Intelligence...

Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church in Lagos, spoke to DEBO OLADIMEJI on the need for President Goodluck Jonathan to seek the face of God to avert further bloodshed in the country, among others.

CAN the...

Abiodun Aluko, former deputy governor of Ekiti State under the tenure of Ayo Fayose, whose impeachment was nullified by the Court of Appeal, said he has put the political crisis of those periods behind him and now looking forward to serving to...

Yau Gwajo-Gwajo, Speaker of the Katsina House of Assembly, insists his leadership is not a rubberstamp of the executive.

WHAT is the relationship between the executive and the legislative since you became Speaker some six years ago?

It has been...

• Stakeholders at town hall meeting take APC to the cleaners

MUCH fuss has been made of President Goodluck Jonathan’s recent visit to Enugu, where he commissioned a new terminal at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport.

Yet, not many people...

Minister of State for Education, Mr. Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, a lawyer, spoke to some journalists on Tuesday in Abuja on the crisis in Rivers State’s chapter of the PDP. Abuja Bureau Chief, Madu Onuorah, was there.

BEING the head of one of the blocs...

WITH hours to the much-talked about and politicised election of a new Chairman for the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), last minute horse-trading, consultations and lobbying have intensified.

All the major actors and shadow stakeholders, including...

RIVERS State Governor and Chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, appears resolute to fend off a fierce challenge and win re-election of the 36-member forum on tomorrow.

A close associate of the governor told The...