Edo 2020: Obaseki as mission impossible for Oshiomhole By Leo Sobechi

APC leader, Adams Oshiomhole It took the inauguration of Edo State House of Assembly for the crisis of confidence and political unease between Governor Godwin Obaseki and the national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole to blow open. Prior to the proclamation and its attendant brouhaha, both leaders put up a vain show …

Obama Foundation: Adeyemo, who helped US fight recession, appointed as president

Adewale Adeyemo, a Nigerian-American economic expert, has been appointed president of the Obama Foundation.Adeyemo had served in the administration of former president Obama as deputy national security adviser (NSA) for international economics and he is reputed to have helped the US combat the global economic recession of 2008.According to the foundation, Adeyemo will lead ‘’the …

Buhari’s bland ministerial list by Punch Editorial Board

Five months after he was elected for a second term, President Muhammadu Buhari submitted the much-awaited ministerial nominees list to the Senate for consideration and confirmation. The team is made up of 43 names, 14 of them former ministers in his first term. To get him to release the names was like pulling the chestnuts …

Is Buhari’s nepotism the worst in Nigeria’s history? By Shaka Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, have you read the bombshell that was exploded in an interview in Saturday Punch published July 23, 2016, by the former Joint House Leader of the defunct Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), who was also the Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the Defence Committee in the Second Republic, Dr. Junaid Mohammed? …