By Danlami Nmodu President Goodluck Jonathan has launched an audacious campaign for the election of  Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala  as President of the World Bank.Jonathan in a statement today said Nigeria’s finance minister has “the depth and breadth of .. experience (which) make her the best candidate to lead the World Bank”. Jonathan said in a statement issued by Dr Reuben Abati, Special Adviser (Media & Pu ...

By Danlami Nmodu There is no question about who was the real winner at the end the national convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party,PDP:Goodluck Ebelo Jonathan of course.Perhaps you may add -ably tutored by ex President Olusegun Obaanjo who was at the Eagle Square to ensure the emergence of Bamanga Tukur  and Olagunsoye Oyinlola as national  chairman and secretary of the party respectively. It was ...

It is trite to say that Adamu Ciroma is a heavyweight in Nigerian politics. He cannot be any less having been a technocrat’s technocrat, a journalist’s journalist, a banker’s banker and even the politician’s politician. Given this pedigree, he is one of the very few whose words carry authority on the strength of analysis rather than on the strength of brutality or wads of naira. In fact, Ciroma’s powers res ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Alhaji Usman Saidu Nasamu Dakingari as the winner of yesterday's governorship rerun poll. The Chief Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Lawal Bilbis disclosed that the former governor of the state, Dakingari polled 875,492 votes, defeating the governorship candidates of the Cong ...

President of the senate, Senator David Mark has charged parliaments across the globe to champion the course for transparency, good governance, justice and fairness in the governments as the needed ingredients to propagate and sustain democracy. Addressing the 126th Assembly of the inter parliamentary union (IPU) holding in Kampala, Uganda today, senator  Mark said the adherence of such principles would guar ...

Written by Ismail Adebayo & Sunday Isuwa, Kaduna Sunday, 01 April 2012 The campaign for the presidential ambition of former FCT minister, Malam Nasir el-Rufai may have begun as some political elements in the Congress for Progressive Change [CPC] are setting up a campaign network for him across the country. The former minister, who heads the renewal committee of the CPC, travelled out of the country, hen ...

It is evident that Nigeria has been so abused to a breaking point, that the only thing that seems plausible now is a national dialogue in form of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC). The alternatives to this national dialogue are better imagined than experienced. If there is consensus on the unity of Nigeria because it is “difficult” to split it along “ethnic” lines without resorting to wars, which I am s ...