While waiting for the Senate to debate the proclamation of state of emergency in three states, lawmakers have individually given their assessment of the step taken by President Goodluck Jonathan, to check the Boko Haram insurgence and its...

RIVERS State Governor and Chairman Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has attributed his political ordeal to this week’s NGF election. But whether he participates or not, the crisis rocking the state chapter of the Peoples...

Ayo Afolabi, South-West Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in this interview with ABIODUN FANORO, accused the Presidency of conniving with Dr. Frederick Fasehun, leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) to resuscitate...

IT was a historic moment for the members of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) when they converged in Gusau, Zamfara State, for a special convention to ratify and endorse the merger of opposition political parties into All Progressives Congress...

Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly and former running mate to the presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Muhammadu Buhari, was the one who moved for the dissolution of the CPC to pave way for its merger into...

SINCE the commencement of what is looking like a realistic and possible merger deal by the leading opposition parties in the country, namely Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP)...

ECHOES of regional economic integration sounded on Sunday, May 12 when 10 of the 11 governors of the South-South and Southeast geopolitical zones met in the Delta State capital, Asaba.

Going by the speeches and resolution after the conclave, it...

Hon. Vincent Ezenwajiaku, a pharmacist and lawyer, is Anambra State Commissioner For Special Duties who wastes no time in replying to every statement either directly made by Chief Victor Umeh, the court-reinstated APGA National Chairman, or...

Etang Umoyo, former senator and Chairman of Eket Senatorial District Forum, spoke to AYOYINKA OLAGOKE in Uyo on the raging issue of zoning, the 2015 governorship election in Akwa Ibom State and other issues affecting the people of Eket zone.

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DURING the celebration of his 79th birthday last year at the Kwara Hotels, Ilorin, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki expectedly pulled a mammoth crowd of well-wishers from the nooks and crannies of the country. He was sandwiched by the members of his...

THERE were two meetings held sequentially: one, between the South-South and Southeast Governors, and the other among the South-South PDP Governors, Members of the National Assembly and State Party Chairmen.

Still, the meetings were not...

Chief Maxi Okwu, lawyer, former national chairman of Citizens Popular Party (CPP), and newly installed chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), fielded questions on the crises in the party, the strategy to expand its control of the...