by Akin Osuntokun Lagos State has the appearance an impregnable fortress for the APC but a lot is hanging on how the departure of Governor Babatunde Fashola is managed. And…
Read Moreby Akin Osuntokun As the virulence of the Abacha dictatorship unfolded, it became clear that Northern military-regional hegemony had run its course and had given way to heedless and malevolent…
Read Moreby Salihu Tanko Yakasai You might be a Major in the Nigerian Army, one of the best that we had, but when it comes to politics, you are a bloody…
Read Moreby Akan Ido Dr. Frederick Fasheun, the founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress was recently seen accompanying Major Hamza al-Mustapha, the former CSO to the late Head of State, Gen.…
Read Moreby Simon Kolawole We seem to have two sets of laws and two justice systems. One for the poor, the other for the powerful. A common man will be sentenced…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu The Nigerian Army has dispelled rumours that the former Chief Security Officer to Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, is to be decorated with the rank of…
Read Moreby Wilfred Okiche At various points in his life he has been a teacher, journalist, public speaker, business man and presidential aspirant. In the conclusive part of the no-holds barred…
Read Moreby Wilfred Okiche Dele Momodu runs a pretty tight schedule. For 17 years, he has been the show runner of Ovation international magazine, the publication that changed the face of…
Read Moreby Michael Orodare Now is the set time for negotiation as no meaningful negotiation comes after victory. The post-1993 experience is enough to learn from; not to be too fixated…
Read MoreThe outgoing permanent representative of the United States of America to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Susan Rice, has said that she will not make any comment on what transpired…
Read Moreby Cheta Nwanze June 12 1993 was a blessing to Nigeria in my opinion. It gave us a chance to taste Abacha. You see, prior to Abacha, the closest we…
Read Moreby Wale Odunsi Continue to rest in peace, the President we never had they never allowed us have. The day was Saturday June 12, week 23 of the year 1993, the event was…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu Aregbesola (Photo: Punch) The Peoples Democratic Party has said it is wrong of the Osun state government to name a Federal Government airport after MKO Abiola calling…
Read Moreby Moshood Kashimawo Abiola No one can give you power. It is yours. Take it! From this day, show to the world that anyone who takes the people of Nigeria…
Read Moreby Bola Ahmed Tinubu In the end, there is no end. That is the essential lesson of June 12. A nation never keeps democracy except it continually fights for it.…
Read Moreby Femi Fani-Kayode Given these circumstances I have no doubt that this was a case of premeditated murder but the question is whose call was it and why did it…
Read Moreby Sam Nda-Isaiah Nigerians cannot clap for the president because, as the late Chief MKO Abiola would have put it, “you cannot clap with one hand.” Many Nigerians have lost their…
Read Moreby Rachel Ogbu This will come as good news to many as yesterday, President Goodluck Jonathan withdrew the name change of the University of Lagos which he renamed Moshood Abiola…
Read MoreMaybe the nation’s thought leaders should instead ask themselves: why haven’t we yet told a coherent tale; one that has a mass appeal and that can drive a national movement?…
Read MoreFellow Nigerians, I address you today with a deep sense of world history and particularly of the history of our great country. In the aftermath of the recently annulled…
Read MoreFellow Nigerians, what could have been a most glorious week for Nigerians, and President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in particular, was botched again big time. Since 1993, when the best election…
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