My shocking encounter with Buhari in Abuja – Ex-Minister, Tony Momoh

by Isi Esene Veteran journalist, Prince Tony Momoh has expressed surprise over the uncommon honesty exhibited by former Head of State and All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, General Muhammadu Buhari. In a recent interview with the Tribune, the former Daily Times editor and member of the APC spoke about his relationship with former presidents, Ibrahim... Read More

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August 21, 2014

A Nigerian descendant could be the first ‘black’ Prime Minister of the UK [DETAILS]

by Kolapo Olapoju According to predictions by British political observers, a 35-year-old Nigerian/British, Chuka Ummuna, could become the first black Prime Minister in the United Kingdom. His late father, Bennett Ummuna, was a Nigerian politician who ran for the governorship of Anambra State during the Babangida Administration. Chuka is an English and French Law graduate... Read More

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July 25, 2014

At last, he speaks! | Read what Babangida has to say about Boko Haram

by Kolapo Olapoju Following the bombing involving General Mohammadu Buhari in Kaduna, his colleague, former head of state General Ibrahim Babangida has spoken out against the growing insurgency by the Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram The former head of state released a statement saying that the menace of the sect is unacceptable and it must... Read More

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July 17, 2014

#InCaseYouMissedIt: Jonathan wants $1billion to tackle Boko Haram

by Kolapo Olapoju President Goodluck Jonathan says he needs at least $1 billion to fight the Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram. Jonathan sent a letter to the National Assembly on Wednesday, July 16, requesting that the lawmakers urgently approve an external loan of $1 billion to be used for acquiring equipment and to facilitate training... Read More

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July 9, 2014

Kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls will be home soon – FG

by Kolapo Olapoju Eighty five days after their daring kidnap, the Council of State, made up of former Heads of State have promised Nigerians that the abducted girls from Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, would be released soon. The girls who were taken from their school on April 14 by members of Islamic terrorist organization,... Read More

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July 7, 2014

Opinion: The agonies of Bola Tinubu’s defenders

by Remi Oyeyemi The sycophantic image makers of ABBAT LLC are still trying their best to camouflage all these antics as “progressivism” and fool the people of the Southwest that ABAT LLC is still the best alternative in the circumstances. What made the task tougher for them lately included the carousal of the destroyers of... Read More

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May 30, 2014

Opinion: Tantrums of a failed Marxist

by Mark Onome The point here is that Amuta’s stint in government was a resounding failure. If he wasn’t deluded, he would recognize the fact and, therefore, live by the dictum that those who live in glass houses should desist from throwing stones. Chidi Amuta’s Tantrums Of A discredited Empress, posted May 21, 2014 [Read Here] was... Read More

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May 27, 2014

Femi Aribisala: The Boko Haram are not Northern Nigerians

by Femi Aribisala These points need to be underlined today, in the midst of all the Boko Haram atrocities in the North, especially since the terrorists often target Christians and non-Northerners. These marauders are the antithesis of everything noble; everything decent; and everything godly about Northerners. In the late 1980s, I was appointed Special... Read More

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May 25, 2014

#TheYNaijaInterview: My generation cannot change the country simply because we’re young – Chude Jideonwo

by Wilfred Okiche Chude Jideonwo is a writer, journalist, media entrepreneur and social advocate. His new book ‘Are We The Turning Point Generation?’ will be launched officially today at the Federal Palace hotel. He speaks with YNaija about his passion for the Nigerian youth, why this generation may or may not be the turning point... Read More

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May 9, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: We are paying the price for the annulment of June 12, 1993 election

by Akin Osuntokun To recap — we are paying the price of the folly of the annulment of the 1993 presidential election. June 12, 1993 was the day military President Ibrahim Babangida and the Federal Republic of Nigeria snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and then the augury was reversed 11 days later on... Read More

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March 13, 2014

Opinion: Sambo Dasuki, Nigerian security challenges & media relations

by Yushau Shuaib Some respected columnists also questioned the silence of NSA over recent security challenges. Writing under his weekly column in Thisday, Olusegun Adeniyi asked if Sambo Dasuki has a phone number of any editor in Nigeria, while Steve Osuji in his column in the Nation simply asks: “Boko Haram: Where on earth is... Read More

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March 3, 2014

Opinion: By honouring Abacha and IBB, Jonathan has canonized dictatorship

by Adeolu Ademoyo As a witness to the truth of that deadly period of Nigerian history I will like to know if President Jonathan asked for the Mohammed Gambo Jimeta panel report of the death of Dele Giwa before he Jonathan “canonized” Ibrahim Babangida. President Goodluck Jonathan put ash and dirt in the mouths of... Read More

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March 2, 2014

Perry Brimah: Dear OBJ and IBB, we are ready to be leaders of today, not tomorrow

by Peregrino Brimah We can and will do this with you or without you. We are determined. You are seeing the force of change, the natural tendency of things, as Ghandi said, after a while all tyrant leadership eventually falls. Every wicked tyranny in history eventually falls. You are witnessing a transition period in Nigeria... Read More

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January 31, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: Gen. Aliyu Gusau, the spy who loves Nigeria

by Akin Osuntokun The return of Gusau to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan as minister (of defence?) is pregnant with meanings. In the ensuing months of a testy political season fraught with unrelieved Northern animosity against his candidacy, President Jonathan is going to require all the bridges he can rig to connect and may... Read More

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January 21, 2014

Perry Brimah: My goodness, not Aliyu Gusau again!

by Perry Brimah Aliyu Mohammed Gusau is a die-hard to occupy the top position. He apparently was at that table where Babangida, Obasanjo and Abacha sat and placed bets that they each must rule and ruin Nigeria. Obasanjo plan am very well. Him take old politicians who rule Nigeria before, the same old politicians who... Read More

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December 19, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Before they sell the refineries

by Simon Kolawole Many questions were still agitating my mind when stories started flying round the media that there was a pre-conceived agenda to sell the refineries to certain favoured friends of government. Names were being mentioned – including those who were indicted in the fuel subsidy probe. We also saw the names of people who have benefitted too much from the... Read More

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December 8, 2013

#NelsonMandela: He stayed in power for (just) one term… which is un-African – IBB

by Oge Okonkwo Former military president, Ibrahim Babangida believes that the world may have to wait a century to have a leader just like the recently departed Nelson Mandela. General Babangida in a tribute to the late Mandela said with the death of the former South African president, the world has lost one of its... Read More

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November 26, 2013

PDP crisis: Baraje-led faction calls for the intervention of party elders

by ‘Jola Sotubo Following several failed attempts to achieve a peaceful resolution of the crisis tearing apart the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Abubakar Baraje-led faction has called on the elders of the ruling party to intervene. The “New PDP” asked the founding members of the PDP to come to its aid lest all their... Read More

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November 16, 2013

Caption this: OBJ lounges with IBB & Buhari (PHOTO)

by Akan Ido You can’t talk about the history of Nigeria without mentioning any of these three personalities – Ibrahim Babangida, Olusegun Obasanjo, and Muhammadu Buhari. This archive photo shows OBJ holding IBB and Buhari in some sort of a bear hug. IBB led a group of military offices to oust the government of Buhari... Read More

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November 14, 2013

IBB hosts APC leaders, says ‘Nigeria is bigger than the PDP’

The national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday entered into closed-door meetings with two former leaders, Gen Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, at their Hilltop residences in Minna, Niger State. Four APC leaders – General Muhammadu Buhari, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Bisi Akande and deputy chairman of the party and former speaker... Read More

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November 3, 2013

Sonala Olumhense: Mike Akhigbe shouldn’t have died in America, he was not a great man

by Sonala Olumhense Not only should Akhigbe never have died in America, he may not even have died last week, had his ailment been diagnosed early. He was in office as the nation’s Number 2 man, and he did not build or inspire any hospitals, let alone a state-of-the-art anything… Someday, Namadi Sambo, at his... Read More

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October 13, 2013

Most of my critics wish to be in government – Reuben Abati opens up, faults #OccupyNigeria protests

by Akan Ido Dr. Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity is a man with strong opinions and is not afraid to express them. Abati, who was the former chairman of the editorial board of the Guardian Newspapers has been widely faulted for pitching tent with a government he... Read More

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September 17, 2013

IBB reportedly drops presidential ambition

by Akan Ido Former president of Nigeria, Ibrahim Babangida has announced that his days of seeking votes in presidential elections are over. Babangida said this in Sokoto yesterday while inaugurating a Modern Agricultural Skills Acquisition Centre at Milgoma, Bodinga Local Government Area. The former president said he intends to emulate the likes of Aliyu Wamakko in kick-starting the revival... Read More

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September 15, 2013

Femi Fani-Kayode: The PDP crisis is essentially a fight between two lions

by Femi Fani-Kayode What is going on in the ruling party today has little to do with the ordinary people of Nigeria. It is simply an internal and brutal struggle for the very soul of the party which is being waged between the new order, led by a relatively weak, inexperienced yet desperate President… Five... Read More

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August 17, 2013

Opinion: Ibrahim Babangida – Eulogizing a colossus at 72

by Hassan Muhammad Jallo Your glorious image as an excellent God-fearing leader, father, peacemaker, diplomat and a living legend of our time, remains positive in the minds and memories of the Nigerian majority. Today, August 17, would appear to onlookers as a day like any other day. But to true Nigerians, it is a day... Read More

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August 10, 2013

IBB, Abubakar visit Fashola over his father’s death

by Isi Esene Former heads of state, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar yesterday visited the governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola to condole with him over the death of his father, Ibrahim Ademola Fashola. Both leaders who visited Fashola at the Lagos House, Marina prayed for the repose of Pa Fashola and also prayed that... Read More

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August 7, 2013

There’s no such thing: Jonathan never planned Ramadan visit to IBB – Presidency

by Isi Esene The presidency is demanding an apology over media reports that former Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida turned down President Goodluck Jonathan’s request to break the Ramadan fast at his home in Minna, Niger state. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, refuted this claim saying... Read More

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August 4, 2013

Femi Falana: How a defective judicial system freed Al-Mustapha

by Femi Falana SAN But suffice it to say that under the criminal justice system, only the poor are successfully prosecuted for murder and sundry offences because they lack the resources to manipulate the criminal justice system. Introduction Under the Ibrahim Babangida junta, politically motivated killings were rife in several parts of the country. The... Read More

August 2, 2013

Game on: APC leaders visit IBB, hold closed-door meeting

by Isi Esene Members of the newly formed All for Progressive Congress (APC) yesterday visited the former president, General Ibrahim Babangida at his Hilltop mansion in Minna, Niger state. This is coming barely two days after its registration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after a protracted battle to be recognised as a political... Read More

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July 31, 2013

Someone’s not amused: Tukur blasts northern governors over visits to IBB and OBJ

by Isi Esene The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party is clearly not happy with the recent visit of four northern governors Sule Lamido, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Babangida Aliyu, Murtala Nyako and Aliyu Wamakko of Jigawa, Kano, Niger, Adamawa and Sokoto states respectively, to former Heads of State, Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo. Tukur expressed... Read More

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