A former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, identified the issues that, in his opinion, prevented Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993...
Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, and spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, have endorsed the presidential...
Kola Abiola, the Peoples Redemption Party’s (PRP) presidential candidate, boasted on Wednesday in Abuja that his party would win the 2023 presidential election. Kola, a son...
The Ministry of Youth and Sports development has ordered that the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja would only host matches involving the national teams. Clubs of...
Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers on Wednesday invaded the Ikeja, Lagos, home of the late billionaire businessman, Chief Moshood Abiola, and stole property worth millions...
Rumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will...
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has called on the Nigerian youth to start preparing themselves for leadership positions well ahead of the 2023 elections. He made these...
Olu Akerele, former personal assistant to Chief MKO Abiola, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for naming the National Stadium after the late politician. Akerele stated that...
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Thursday announced that it has revoked Oil Mining Licences and one Oil Prospecting Licence belonging to five companies. One...
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole on Saturday emerged the governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) in Ogun State for...
Foremost lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) has declared as illegal, President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to declare June 12 as Democracy Day. The former president of Nigeria Bar...
A former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has claimed that the late MKO Abiola rejected a move by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress...
Olisa Agbakoba, rights lawyer and former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says MKO Abiola’s failure to become president of the country was due to...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Do not cry for Obasanjo as the only head of State to be tried and condemned to death which he luckily escaped....
The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has described President Muhammadu Buhari as the “father of Nigeria’s modern democracy” for his declaration of June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy...
A former Ogun State governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has lamented the outright neglect the children and wives of the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993...
By SOC Okenwa Last May 29 2018 the APC-led federal government marked with fanfare the so-called Democracy Day. May 29, it would be recalled, was the...
Beside the eventual recognition of Chief MKO Abiola as the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), said he should...
By Louis Odion… It is difficult not to read politics to President Muhammadu Buhari’s avowal of June 12 last week. If posthumous awards for MKO and...
By Omoshola Deji… Nigerians assembled at the polls on June 12, 1993 to expunge dictatorship and usher in purposeful leadership. The widely acclaimed free, fair and...
By Reuben Abati… I used to have a friend we called Alhaji Bashy. He was not a Muslim. No. But he called himself Alhaji Bashy, even...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari as the midwife of the circumstances that led to Chief Moshood Abiola’s travails following June 12...
In his quest to win back the support of Southwest for the 2019 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari, responded to a 20-year old quest by many...
The Secretary of the Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly, Dr. Umar Ardo, who is also a former aide to former vice president Atiku Abubakar, said on...
Bashir Tofa, the candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC) in the 1993 presidential election, MKO Abiola’s opponent in the election, has reacted to the declaration...
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...
By Reuben Abati… There are three aspects – the strategic, the political and the legal – to the Federal Government’s decision to replace May 29 with...
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 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...
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (retd.) the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to Nigeria’s former head of state, late General Sani Abacha, has claimed that his incarceration for 15...
By Femi Adesina… I learnt an enduring lesson on the day General Sani Abacha died. It was June 8, 1998, and death had laid its icy...
As I was about writing this piece, I suddenly heard a rebuttal from Asiwaju’s media team on his possible run for the Presidency. Earlier in the...
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...
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...
