Seventeen years after former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidential pardon, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of pension to soldiers, policemen and paramilitary officers who fought...
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that former president Goodluck Jonathan did not take the insurgency serious because he believed that the group was being used...
As protests mount against the already 12-year rule of President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo by some Togolese citizens led by the country’s opposition party, former president...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has accused Nigerian lawmakers of corruptly enriching themselves through bogus constituency projects inserted into budgets. The lawmakers, in return, have branded Obasanjo...
Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he will not be a part of the ongoing debate over Nigeria’s restructuring because he believes that Nigerians first of...
The House of Representatives does not intend to issue a formal response to the fresh label of ‘unarmed robbers’ pinned on federal legislators on Thursday by...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday threw his weight behind the Not Too Young To Run campaign, stating that age should not preclude anyone from leading...
Though President Muhammadu Buhari has not officially declined to run for a second term in office, his long absence and health challenges may have prompted an...
Former president of the Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani, has thrown his weight behind the calls for restructuring, stating that Nigeria must act fast to fully embrace...
Three former head of states, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) and General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) have all met behind closed doors in Minna. The...
Friends and family gathered on Monday to celebrate Evangelist Ebenezer Obey who turned 75 years during a church service, at the Chapel of Christ the Glorious...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has revisited the lingering rift between himself and his former boss, ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. Atiku, a chieftain of the ruling All...
Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the emergence of the Boko Haram insurgents resulted from the failings of past administrations. He said that...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and one of Africa’s richest women, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija were in disagreement over the weekend as to how she hit oil, and...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, said he prays the embattled factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, would not be...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied reports that he and three others brought President Muhammad Buhari to power. The former president, who spoke in Jalingo, Taraba...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed why he and three other eminent Nigerians brought President Muhammadu Buhari to help salvage the country. According to the former...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thrown an open invitation to former President Olusegun Obasanjo to return to the party and help in rebuilding it. This...
Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo is one of the richest former presidents in West Africa, despite coming out of...
Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, has said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is just as ’roguish’ as the lawmakers he accused of corruption. He accused...
The crisis in the National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND) over allegations of corruption, has led the federal government to close down the agency. Following the move,...
By Kolade Gbolagade… “Had long sought a separate state not because they loved power but because their conditions were peculiar and the authorities did not understand...
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO to the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, says he would not be silent and allow former...
By Okey Ndibe… Before the 2015 presidential election, Candidate Muhammadu Buhari essentially advertised himself as a magician. Even though oil prices were tumbling, Mr. Buhari promised...
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has said that former President Goodluck Jonathan did not show any sympathy for the families of the abducted Chibok girls...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that those asking him to account for the recovered Abacha loot are stupid, and ignorant of how the process works....
By Prince Charles Dickson First let me quickly thank my brother and friend Sam Kalu for this narrative. It talks about Otabil’s parable of onions and...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that those agitating for a sovereign state of Biafra at this time are jokers, and that Nigeria will not tolerate such...
By Okey Ndibe . . . In 1992, Bill Clinton, then the Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, popularized the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.”...
By SOC Okenwa The Nigerian former President Olusegun Obasanjo could be described as an executive letter-writer of repute. Right from the Locust years of Ibrahim Babangida...
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews In apparent reaction to ongoing probes by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, especially over security spending under the immediate past administration of President...
Pa Obasanjo sent Jonathan a recipe for baking a national cake to celebrate Nigeria’s centenary. After many tries at deciphering Baba’s cryptic handwriting, spies alerted the...
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy...
FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark yesterday asked the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel the former President, Chief...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said his administration probed the accounts of the Petroleum Trust Fund headed by the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj....