“Nigeria is awaiting receipt from Swiss Govt. of $320 million, identified as illegally taken from Nigeria under Abacha” – Buhari @NGR President, 5:09 PM – 27 APR 2016 WHEN Twitter-addicted Nigerians stumbled on this posting on President Muhammadu Buhari’s Twitter handle last week, the whole Internet went abuzz, with most people expressing their dismay at […]
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Ahead of 2019 general election, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has zoned its presidential slot to the Northern region, a move which signals the return of zoning of elective offices in the party. The party has also declared its plans to abolish the delegate system as a means of electing its […]
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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari’s threats to probe governance affairs of his predecessors has tumbled into a boomeranging breadth, prompting the General to personally send a plea with apologies to the former President and one of the targets of his proposed probe, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, International Guardian reliably gathered. “I didn’t personally know what was said […]
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NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has given a rebuttal to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest book, My Watch describing it as a narrative by a career liar always determined to crookedly project himself above his true standing among men. Affirming his general detestation of such men, Soyinka said the Obasanjo brand was compounded by the […]
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Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Muhammodu Buhari not to take APC South West, Bola Ahmed Tinubu too serious. The message was sent out on Wednesday, when the former President urged the incumbent President not to be persuaded by Tinubu’s bitterness on the victory of Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker […]
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By Yinka Odumakin: Arewa political artistes have been singing songs of captivity lately and not a few ears would have tingling especially among the greedy lot whose misplaced expectations have led into this quandary.But thank goodness for the Col. Dangiwa Umar of that region who sings redemption songs. Among the former who see Nigeria basically […]
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By Dan Azumi Kofarmata: President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo – so far, has been the luckiest Nigerian (leaving or dead). For example, he is traditional Chief; a Five Star General; a civil war hero; a former federal commissioner (minister) and member of federal executive ruling councils under two defunct military regimes; a former second in command […]
Continue ReadingAccording to ex vice President Abubakar Atiku, the decay and rot in the country’s power sector began when then president Olusegun Obasanjo decided to go full throttle instead of taking things one at a time. In a PUNCH interview, he says he refused to lay down the foundations of the power sector then because he […]
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A former member of National Assembly, Senator Rowland Owie, has described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Think-tank report as a document of blackmail for the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, In a statement issued in Abuja, Owie, who is also a former Chief Whip of the Senate, asked: ”How can Obasanjo be preparing a blueprint for Buhari? A […]
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By Iyobosa Uwugiaren// Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has never ceased to mesmerise me on some national issues. Recently the national dailies and the new media copiously placed news reports on how a committee, set up by the former President presented comprehensive reports on key sectors to serve as a guide to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. The […]
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