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October 18, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Where does the South west go from Awo?

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…

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October 4, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: How fares the Northern hegemony

by 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…

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September 28, 2013

Salihu Tanko Yakasai: Al-Mustapha must stop acting like a political learner (Y! Politico)

by 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…

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July 21, 2013

Al-Mustapha did not kill Kudirat, he was a victim – Frederick Fasehun, OPC founder

by 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.…

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July 21, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Immunity is obviously not the problem

by 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…

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July 17, 2013

Army rules out promotion for al-Mustapha

by 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…

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June 30, 2013

“Nigerians are not ready for change; we deserve whatever government we get”: Dele Momodu speaks exclusively to YNaija (Conclusion)

by 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…

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June 29, 2013

“When I say I want to run this nation, I know what I am saying”: Dele Momodu speaks exclusively to YNaija (Part 1)

by 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…

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June 21, 2013

Michael Orodare: June 12 and the lessons for ‘tomorrow’s leaders’

by 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…

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June 13, 2013

MKO Abiola’s Death: “I won’t talk for personal reasons” – Susan Rice

The 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…

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June 13, 2013

The unexpected blessings of June 12 – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by 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…

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June 12, 2013

Opinion: June 12 – Synopsis of an eternal wound

by 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…

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June 12, 2013

There goes nothing: PDP fights against naming Osun airport after Abiola

by 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…

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June 12, 2013

Epetedo Declaration: “Today, I join you in saying, ‘Enough is Enough!'” – MKO Abiola [Read Full Text]

by 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…

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June 12, 2013

Bola Ahmed Tinubu: June 12 is our beacon in the dark

by 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.…

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June 11, 2013

Femi Fani-Kayode: M.K.O Abiola, Susan Rice and the question of the missing one hour

by 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…

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June 10, 2013

Sam Nda-Isaiah: Jonathan should start working and stop clapping for himself

by 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…

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February 22, 2013

It’s still UNILAG people! GEJ reverses controversial name change

by 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…

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January 19, 2013

Ask yourself honestly, what exactly are we fighting for? (#NewLeadership Series by Chude Jideonwo)

Maybe 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?…

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Oluwapelumi June 12, 2012

For the Records: The June 12 election annulment speech of General Ibrahim Babangida, June 26, 1993

  Fellow 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…

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June 5, 2012

Dele Momodu: Doing right the right way

Fellow 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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