POLITICS
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881Nigeria Elections Shifted by 6 Weeks
All that the marathon meetings held between INEC chieftains and party leaders and among INEC chiefs produced on Saturday night was a...
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1.1KNigeria’s Blunder over Palestine
The last day of 2014 left a lasting shame on Nigeria’s foreign policy. Nigeria abstained from a vote at the United Nations...
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1.4KCoronation of Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Enugu
There is no standoff anymore in the contest for the governorship ticket of the PDP in Enugu State, south-east Nigeria. On Friday,...
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2015: Ndigbo Not for Second Fiddle
In the midst of all the altercation and even violence preceding the February 2015 general elections, it is reassuring that there are...
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1.0KBuhari Is APC flag-bearer with 3, 430 Votes
Nigeria’s presidential election already slated for February 14, 2015, will be a straight fight between Muhammadu Buhari of the APC and Goodluck...
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966Jonathan Defeats Jonathan at PDP Presidential Primary
Nigeria’s ruling party, PDP, has been entertaining TV viewers with its mock convention in Abuja meant to “choose” its presidential candidate in...
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1.4KAPC Flag-bearer: Govs Stop Atiku, Go for Buhari
By Thursday morning the delegates’ convention of Nigeria’s APC will be over. Who will fly the party’s flag in the Feb. 14,...
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891PDP: Exclusive Club or Political Party?
Barring any x-factor – and there is always an x-factor in Nigerian politics – the journey to the 2015 elections has started...
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Religious Politics: Fani-Kayode and the Looming Anarchy
By C. Don Adinuba — Nigeria is a perfect example of what Samuel Huntington, the late preeminent Harvard professor of political...
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831The Tambuwal Tragedy
Rewind to 2011.The Nigerian opposition parties had managed to make public discontent count in their favour and had closed in significantly on...