•Bugaje and Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s denial of pushing for a third term in office has been strongly refuted by political activist and civil society leader, Dr. Usman Bugaje, who insisted that the ex-president “did everything within his power” to extend his tenure. Obasanjo, while speaking at a democracy dialogue hosted by ...
•Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe Sri Lankan police arrested former president Ranil Wickremesinghe today, marking him as the highest-ranking opposition figure to be detained in an anti-corruption crackdown initiated by the new leftist government. Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption units have been leading this crackdown since President Anura Kuma...
•Brazilian senator and former president (1990-1992), Fernando Collor de Mello Brazil’s former president Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested today, a federal police source told our correspondent, after a top court upheld his nearly nine-year sentence on corruption and money laundering charges. Collor de Mello, Brazil’s first democratically el...
•Tinubu and Obasanjo The presidency yesterday attacked former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his claim that corruption has reached a fatal stage in the country. The presidency also faulted Obasanjo’s call for the sacking of the Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, over his conduct of the 2023 election whi...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he once suffered 25 per cent hearing loss without knowing it. Obasanjo stated this in Bauchi today when he paid homage to the Emir of Bauchi, Alhaji Rilwanu Suleiman-Adamu, reports Daily Trust. According to him, many people in the world are deaf without knowing it until they […]...
•Goodluck Jonathan The February 20, 2027 presidential election is exactly 910 days away, going by the timetable of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, but the political firmament is astir as if the poll will be held next year. This is in spite of the fact that President Bola Tinubu, a southerner, who succeeded former […...

