The Big 5: Soyinka urges Buhari to stop admiring Abacha, Buhari holds closed-door meeting with APC Governors and other stories

These are the stories you should be monitoring today: Nobel laureate and activist during the June 12,1993 struggle, Professor Wole Soyinka has called on President Buhari to stop showing loyalty to “Abiola’s tormentor.” Soyinka who made the request during the Special National Honours Investiture held at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, commended the President for apologising... Read More

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April 4, 2017

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Abdulsalami and I met briefly to discuss transition shortly after MKO’s death – Falae reacts to Bamaiyi’s book

by Dolapo Adelana A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and presidential candidate in the 1999 election has said the death of Chief MKO Abiola stalled a transitional meeting that the then Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, invited him for in Abuja. Falae said this on Monday while reacting to a book, ‘Vindication... Read More

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January 31, 2015

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Dele Momodu: Bishop Oyedepo is a victim of success

by Dele Momodu Fellow Nigerians, let me confess that I have a soft spot for men of God, especially Pastors. The reason can’t be difficult to fathom. I’m not just a Christian; I had the great privilege of being born by my heavily spiritual mum and dad in an Aladura church in Ile-Ife. That was... Read More

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November 23, 2013

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A rejoinder: Dele Momodu’s misinformed ‘Travails of Chief Harry Akande’ by Yakubu Dati

by Yakubu Dati Of course, this make-belief by Momodu is so far from the truth. Rather, on the contrary, it is Akande, the flamboyant and powerful Nigerian-born international businessman and former presidential aspirant of the ANPP (All Progressive Peoples Party) that has failed to deliver on his sweet talk. That Dele Momodu is perhaps, the... Read More

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June 12, 2013

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Hafsat Abiola-Costello: June 12 – Twenty years after the people’s movement

by Hafsat Abiola-Costello But today is not a day for sorrow. No, not even when the main beneficiaries of his sacrifice fail to honor the ideals for which these true democrats laid down their lives; not even when the national leadership since 1999 has sought to wipe MKO’s name out of our living memory. Twenty... Read More

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June 12, 2013

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Joe Igbokwe: June 12 – A historical necessity for Nigeria

by Joe Igbokwe …. the world knows about June 12, 1993 presidential election in Africa’s most populous country, the crisis, the pains, the agonies, the tears, the killings, the deaths, the chains of events that followed the annulments of that election,…. Alhaji Bashir Tofa, the Presidential candidate for the National Republican Convention (NRC) in 1993... Read More

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The Big 5: Soyinka urges Buhari to stop admiring Abacha, Buhari holds closed-door meeting with APC Governors and other stories

Abdulsalami and I met briefly to discuss transition shortly after MKO’s death – Falae reacts to Bamaiyi’s book

Dele Momodu: Bishop Oyedepo is a victim of success

A rejoinder: Dele Momodu’s misinformed ‘Travails of Chief Harry Akande’ by Yakubu Dati

Hafsat Abiola-Costello: June 12 – Twenty years after the people’s movement

Joe Igbokwe: June 12 – A historical necessity for Nigeria

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