Amos Esele, THEWILL

Governors Live Large While The People Suffer Infrastructural Development Not Commensurate With Available Resources Federal Government, States Trade Blames When the Federal Government said a fortnight ago that 133 million of its citizens are currently living in poverty, it...

Just as the Labour Party and the Obi/Datti campaign team have recently found out, in carrying out any workable plan, inadequate funding can be a major source of confusion during electioneering. Ninety days to the presidential poll on February 25,...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was so irritated by what he called the undue interference of socio-cultural organisations in the political affairs of the country during his eight-year tenure that he openly called for their ban, describing them as meddlesome...

Alarm hallmarked remarks by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, at the end of last Friday’s meeting of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) held in Abuja. Coming a day after the...

Politicians in Nigeria are always told to discuss issues during electioneering, but they often choose to do so in their own way, which raises the question of context. When Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential flagbearer of the ruling All...

When Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State announced last week that he had authorised the removal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s photograph from the party’s campaign materials and posters in the state, top stakeholders...

Barring a miracle, the Labour Party (LP) and over 500 hundred support groups that make up the “Obidient Movement,” may soon part ways, leaving the party in pains and Peter Obi’s presidential candidacy in jeopardy. Investigation shows that funding and...

With some dams yet to be opened and the rains still falling, accompanied by flashes of lightning and thunder storms across the country, there is no telling which of the 36 states that will soon join others that are...

Indication of how the Labour Party has transformed from being one of the smaller parties came to the fore last Friday as its leaders thrice postponed its National Working Committee meeting. The meeting, which was initially scheduled to take...

With two out of three opinion polls in his favour and his ‘million- man march’ waxing in strength and spreading across over four of six geo-political zones in the country currently, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP),...