If the report at our disposal is anything to go by, then the refusal of the leader of the major opposition party, the All Progressive Congress {APC} in Adamawa state, former vice-president Atiku Abubakar to sponsor the campaign organization of the governorship candidate of the party, Alhaji Jibrilla Mohammad Bindow, in the state has plunged…
You can call it dramatic, you can call it funny but that is exactly what happened between the immediate-past governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and presently the Emir of Kano, His Royal Majesty, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. These two men are…
Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro popularly known as Koro is no doubt a popular name in the political circle of Nigeria today having risen through the rank and file. The America returnee was one time chairman of a local government and also a commissioner under the administration of immediate past governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed…
For people who do not know, the three-decade-old cold war that has been existing between former head of state who is also the presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress {APC} in the March 28th 2015 Presidential and Federal Houses of Assembly elections, General Muhammadu Buhari {rtd} and his colleague in the army, former military “President”…
It’s no longer news that there is no love lost between former president Olusegun Obasanjo and his erstwhile godson President Goodluck Jonathan. Though nobody can really say what the problem between father and son is, those who are in the know claimed that Obasanjo because of who he is, doesn’t want anybody to surpass him…
When Dr. Kayode Fayemi (former Governor of Ekiti State who was summarily defeated by Mr. Ayodele Fayose in the June 21, 2014 Governorship election in Ekiti State) founded SaharaReporters (SR) alongside other pro-democracy campaigner at the twilight of Radio Kudirat just before Nigeria’s return to democratic governance; many (including yours sincerely) were relieved that a…
THE REPUBLIC BY SHAKA MOMODU As I sit down to write this piece, I cannot but be amused by the change chorus around me. Even though I sense some genuine desire to have things go in a different direction, I get this sneaky feeling that a vast majority of Nigerians are being duped by some…
It is no more news that the deputy governor of Lagos State Adejoke Adefilure lost her bid to go to the senate at the forthcoming elections. Global News can authoritatively inform you from sources close to the party that her stinginess and fake empowerment stalled her ambitions, as participants grumbled over a lot of failed…
Every Nigerian knows that he had overspent his tenure in the Senate but his people in Benue State keep returning him to the hot seat to keep representing them. Senator David Mark, an inaugural senator during Nigeria’s foray into the Third Republic is currently in the news. The ex-military man was said to have constructed…
In the 2014 National Conference, Igbo politicians were divided in arriving at a common agenda to take to the conference as the Igbo position in negotiating the provisions of a new constitution for our country. Although these politicians had always been emotionally attached to a few common concerns about such matters as the following: ·…
