•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has debunked circulating social media rumors about his death, saying he is alive but those behind such information will not escape tragedy. Speaking at the commissioning of the Old-Garage-Oke-Fia-Lameco road in Osogbo, Osun State, alongside Governor Ademola Adeleke, Obasanjo expressed shock and disa...
•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 and Tinubu The presidency has kept silent on the criticisms of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reforms by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Obasanjo had, according to a statement by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, alleged that Nigeria is currently under a state capture and that the country’...
•Obasanjo and Tinubu Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has issued a scathing critique of Nigeria’s current state under President Bola Tinubu, labeling the country’s status as a “failing state” marked by pervasive corruption and leadership failure. Obasanjo made these remarks during his keynote address at the Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum hel...
•Obasanjo (right) being received at the airport Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is in Kano for the wedding of the daughter of Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP). The former president was seen wearing a red cap, an insignia associated with Kwankwasiyya movement, as he was received by Kwankwaso ...
•Obasanjo and late wife, Stella Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reminisced on his time in prison and the incredible efforts his late wife, Stella, made to secure his release. Speaking during the inauguration of the 250-bed Stella Obasanjo Hospital in Benin, Obasanjo revealed how his late wife travelled extensively, visiting places like ...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again refuted long-standing speculation that he sought a third term as Nigeria’s democratic president. Obasanjo, who ruled both as a military head of state and later as a civilian president from 1999 to 2007, clarified that he never had any intention of extending his tenure. In an exclusive inte...
•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 […]...
•Bishop David Oyedepo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo today welcomed the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, into the esteemed septuagenarian club on his 70th birthday. In a video posted by The Church Gist on X.com, Obasanjo said, “Bishop Oyedepo, I appreciate you because you are plain, and God appreciates you be...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that some of the people in government both at the executive and legislative levels, should be permanently behind bars for their past misdemeanor and criminal misconduct. Obasanjo, who said this in Lagos virtually yesterday at the memorial lecture of Denis Joseph Slattery in Lagos, noted tha...

