
NIGERIA - APC crisis: Oshiomhole blasts Giadom over National Chairman claim
Adams Oshiomhole, embattled National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said the party’s Deputy National Secretary, Victor Giadom, can’t replace him. Oshiomhole said going by the rules …

NIGERIA: I joined politics because I’m not corrupt – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed why he decided to become to join partisan politics after release from prison. Speaking when he received the youths leaders of the All Progressives Congress, …

NIGERIA: Buhari congratulates Lyon as APC cruised to victory in Bayelsa
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the Nov. 16 election in Bayelsa, David Lyon, on his victory. Buhari’s congratulatory message was contained …

SIERRA LEONE - Elections générales : Mediaguinee au cœur de l’événement
Le 7 mars prochain, la Sierra Leone, petit pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, aux plages de sable blanc, et le plus proche de la Guinée organise ses élections générales …

NIGERIA - If Our People Insist, We Will Go Back To PDP, Says Kwara Governor
Kwara State governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, was one of the five governors that walked, with other chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), out of the party in the buildup to …

Opinion - Corruption: Why Buhari may lose the battle
By Martins Oloja I am fully persuaded that what President Muhammadu Buhari needs at this juncture is not sycophancy – that not a few are offering through …

Opinion - Buhari’s Achilles heel
By Yakubu Mohammed Corruption is like a snake scorched. If it is not killed it becomes more ferocious, more venomous and more lethal. That is what the …

Opinion - Parties sans ideologies
By Dan Agbese Stale news. Eighty-one political parties have filed applications before INEC seeking to be registered as political parties. The more the merrier, right? Arguably.We should be …

Opinion - Buhari: Bad times, good times
By Yakubu Mohammed We need no ghost to come from yonder to tell us, before we realise, that these indeed are bad times for our president. President …

NIGERIA - PDP must die to live
By Debo Adesina FOR the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), it’s bad enough that failure arrived 44 years ahead of the party’s own projection. Death, it would seem, …

NIGERIA - Buhari’s headache
By Yakubu Mohammed THE President has headache. That is the heart-rending news from Addis Ababa in far away Ethiopia. President Muhammadu Buhari himself did the diagnosis. Judging from …

NIGERIA - Kogi Election Conduct: A Big One For Change
Apart from the tragic ending and the fumbles that marked the Kogi gubernatorial election last week, there are numerous lessons that spewed from that election that are compliant with the …

NIGERIA - Is Change Coming For Bayelsa? By Tabia Princewill
When the King of Saudi Arabia passed away last year, what interested me most in the news reports were the images of Saudi streets, infrastructure and people. Saudi Arabia is …

NIGERIA – Les 100 jours du président Buhari à Aso Rock
Le président nigérian, Muhammadu Buhari, ancien Général à la retraite investit président de la République le 29 mai, à la suite du scrutin présidentiel du 28 mars dernier vient de …

NIGERIA - Learning from Lagos
Nigeria’s commercial capital is crowded, noisy, violent—and a model for the rest of the country

NIGERIA – Gar(d)e à vous corrompus, le Général Buhari entre en fonction
Comme prévu officiellement, le nouveau président élu au Nigeria prend fonction le 29 mai. Le président Muhammadu Buhari remplace le sortant Goodluck Jonathan à la tête d’un pays qui connaît …

Nigerians Must Forgive Buhari’s Past, Laureate Soyinka Says
Africa’s first Nobel laureate for literature, Wole Soyinka, said Nigerians must show a Nelson Mandela-like ability to forgive president-elect Muhammadu Buhari’s past as an iron-fisted military ruler. “I …

What I saw at the Nigerian polling booths was inspirational. Brits could learn from it
Corrupt politicians? Identikit parties? Nigerians have the same reasons as us to not bother voting – plus 38C heat and day-long queues. But there was no sign of apathy.

NIGERIA – La grande leçon d’un scrutin présidentiel historique
Le scrutin présidentiel du 28 mars dernier au Nigeria, finalement prolongé jusqu’au 29, en raison de quelques dysfonctionnements dans certains bureaux de vote a révélé ses résultats. C’est la …

REVUE DE PRESSE / NIGERIA – Une victoire historique pour Buhari et un nouveau départ pour le Nigeria
Les Nigérians sont maintenant soulagés au lendemain de l’annonce officielle des résultats de la présidentielle du 28 mars dernier. Avec cette victoire de l’opposition menée par le Général à la …