Politics

The United States (US) Christmas Day bombing of ISIS-linked terrorist camps in Sokoto State has opened a vista of complicated issues and a deepening world –wide intervention that will likely employ extreme measures against the terrorists’ sympathisers, financiers, ideologues and enablers in Nigeria. A source who works with the United States intelligence network told our correspondent that Nigeria has attracted …

United States President, Donald Trump has announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Trump disclosed this in a post via his Truth Social media account on Saturday. “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and …

As with many godfather-godson relationships in Nigeria’s political history, Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf appears to have fallen out with his political mentor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. In what has become a dramatic week in Kano politics, a relationship spanning more than four decades, dating back to their years as civil engineers at the Water Resources and Engineering Construction …

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Nyesom Wike has fired back at his estranged political son, Siminalayi Fubara over his dog barking comment. Governor Fubara, at the New Year banquet held on Thursday said, “if you have a dog in your house and it knows you, does it need to bark?” The governor was apparently reacting to the …

A factional Caretaker Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Dr. Nname Ewor, has accused Governor Siminalayi Fubara of deceiving party members and abandoning the PDP midway through the state’s prolonged political crisis. Speaking at a press conference in Port Harcourt on Thursday, Dr. Ewor alleged that Governor Fubara misled party members into believing he could wrest …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel will open what he described as a new front aimed at protecting Christian communities across Africa and the Middle East, amid what he said were growing global threats to what he termed the “Judeo-Christian civilization.” Netanyahu made the remarks in a public speech delivered on Wednesday and uploaded on the Israeli …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is inching closer to controlling 30 of the 36 states of the federation following Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang’s exit from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the ‘imminent’ defection of Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). Mutfwang formally notified the PDP of his resignation in a letter dated …

These governors and politicians defecting to the APC is not necessarily an endorsement of Tinubu government’s performance. It’s about their own survival and re-election. At the state level, politics is less about ideology and more about resources. Party structures control funding, logistics, mobilization, and grassroots machinery. Opposition parties in Nigeria today are financially weak, unstable, and can’t seriously fund elections …

Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchifacebook sharing buttontwitter sharing buttonemail sharing buttonsharethis sharing buttonwhatsapp sharing buttonBala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi, has accused the federal government of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to “persecute” him and members of his cabinet over their refusal to join the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mohammed spoke on Wednesday at the Bauchi government house …

I watched as Peter Obi, the former Labour Party presidential candidate, formally joined the ADC after abandoning the party he had used to pursue his ill-fated presidential ambition. About three years after the 2023 election, Obi, the wandering politician — who moved from APGA to PDP to Labour and now ADC — still sounded bitter about coming third. He continues …