Ochereome Nnanna, Chairman, Editorial Board of Vanguard Newspapers, has come under fire for branding people of the Yoruba ethnic group “sophisticated morons”. Nnanna’s comment was part...
The presidency has reacted to an allegation by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the Buhari administration was plotting his arrest on trumped-up charges. Obasanjo had made...
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for his decision to declare June 12 Nigeria’s new Democracy Day...
Mohammed Fawehinmi, first son of Gani Fawehinmi, late human rights lawyer, says his family is appreciative of the conferment of the Grand Commander of the Niger...
Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says President Muhammadu Buhari is well within the law to confer national honours on deserving Nigerians, dead or...
The family of the late MKO Abiola has written to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for awarding the nation’s highest honour to their patriarch who is the...
The Senate on Thursday reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to honour the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, late Chief Moshood Kashimawo...
By Prince Singa Edward Zhattau… The President was at it once again when he pronounced that “…after due consultations, the Federal Government has decided that henceforth,...
The House of Representatives was on Thursday thrown into a rowdy session as members disagreed with the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari declaring June 12 as...
BY an executive order, President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, proclaimed June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day. With same stroke, he cancelled out May 29, which since 2000...
The long clamour for June 12 to be declared Democracy Day in Nigeria has come to a fruitful end as the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government...
It is now 24 years since Nigerians voted in an election that is still regarded as the most peaceful, transparent, freest and fairest poll the country...
By Joseph Edgar… You know I once took a tour of the famous Abiola mansion in Ikeja. Kudirat’s daughter had turned his expansive master bedroom into...
By Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu… Ibrahim Badamasi Babaginda has been busy lately. He has been tending his sick body and refuting rumors of his own death. ...
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Sunday, made a case for true federalism, saying it is the only way the Nigerian democracy can become viable. The...
By Reuben Abati . . . This day, June 12 will always be remembered by those who have defied the culture of silence and conspiracy against...
While June 12 may mean different things to different people, what is not in doubt is that Nigerians paid an enormous price for the contrived and...
