Politics

Does it feel like a dream that you would become a member of the house of assembly in Lagos State come May 29? No, it doesn’t feel like a dream. But then, I wouldn’t say I was sure I was ...

Many workers in Lagos state, May 1, 2015, assembled at the Onikan stadium in Lagos Island with the State Governor Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola for the festival of the current year’s Workers’ Day. The Governor, who tended to the workers, ...

A Borno-based pastor, Kallamu Dikwa, on Tuesday threatened to sue the State Security Service for alleged violation of his fundamental human rights. The clergy lamented that his ordeal at the hands of the SSS began earlier this year when he ...

I am alarmed at the gale of defections from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, so soon after the elections. No sooner had the results been declared, than the political “hejira” began. Elsewhere, losers of elections always ...

The University of Lagos convocation ended on Thursday with President Goodluck Jonathan and his minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, snubbing the three-day occasion. The college likewise presented emeriti professorship on three resigned lecturers of the establishment. The beneficiaries are ...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday picked holes in the aftereffects of the March 28 presidential race, saying “the Peoples Democratic Party couldn’t have got those sorts of scores” it had in a few spots. Jonathan, who talked not long after ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan declared Thursday in Abuja that if members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) remain committed to the vision of its founding fathers and work very hard, the party will return to power at the Federal level ...

The State House Press statement below.. President Goodluck Jonathan pledged Thursday in Abuja that he will do all within his powers to ensure that all Nigerian territory still held by terrorists and insurgents are totally liberated before May 29, 2015. ...

Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari, has instructed all his staff, including the personnel attached directly to him, to steer clear of all dealings with the media, and leave all media affairs to his official media team. In a statement in Abuja ...

The Federal Government has condemned the execution of four Nigerians by Indonesian authorities over drug-related offences, despite pleas for clemency by President Goodluck Jonathan, describing it as a disappointment. The government however extended its condolences to the families of the ...