•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised the model of democracy practised across much of Africa, saying it lacks African context and content and has created a winner-takes-all approach to politics. Obasanjo said the Western liberal democracy inherited by many African countries was not designed around the continent’s realitie...
•Photo (L-R): Ex-governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti; former governor of Osun State, Olagunsoye Oyinlola; former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Oyo governor, Seyi Makinde. Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, former Osun State governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and ex-Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi have visited ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as ac...
•Atiku, Frank and Obasanjo Activist and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of turning former Vice President Atiku Abubakar into an election-year scapegoat every four years. Frank said this while reacting to Obasanjo’s latest attac...
•Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday recounted how a deliberate communication strategy helped Nigeria secure the landmark $30 billion Paris Club debt relief during the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Okonjo-Iweala spoke in Abuja at the public pr...
•Obasanjo Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned that Nigeria must never experience another civil war, stressing that many of the issues that triggered the 1967–1970 conflict remain unresolved within the country’s institutions and among its diverse ethnic groups. Obasanjo gave the warning yesterday at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presi...
•Obasanjo and Kwankwaso Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Thursday night’s visit to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso at his Kano residence has added to speculations that the former president is supporting the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi. Multiple sources belie...
•Omotola and Obasanjo Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has lauded Nollywood icon Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, describing her as ‘a treasure’ for the nation’s development. He spoke at the actress’ directorial debut, ‘Mother’s Love’, which premiered in Lagos on Sunday at Alliance Française in Ikoyi, reports Channels TV. Whe...
•El-Rufai and Ribadu The escalating confrontation between former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, has revived a remarkable chapter in Nigeria’s 2007 succession politics as documented by El-Rufai himself in his 2013 memoir, The Accidental Public Servant. In pages 358 to 360 of the book, El-R...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that reforms introduced during his time as military head of state were designed to free Nigeria’s labour movement from foreign influence at the height of the Cold War. Speaking at the 85th birthday celebration and book launch of former Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) president, Hassan Sunmonu...
•Bishop Fagbohun The Presiding Bishop of the Old Catholic Apostolic Church, Nigeria (OCAC), Ekiti State, Raphael Fagbohun, has called on President Bola Tinubu to draw lessons from the leadership style and reforms of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo as a pathway to national recovery from insecurity and corruption. Fagbohun made the call in A...
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