The suspended former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has aligned himself with the scathing remarks of former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stirred an hornet’s nest as his submission on a number of issues in the country has set off a barrage of...
By Louis Odion… This must be a depressing hour indeed for the man who “fashioned the drama of existence” and first black Nobel prizewinner in Literature,...
The crisis that has bedeviled the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) took a dangerous turn on Tuesday as Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State hit former...
Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), on Tuesday , revealed that Nigeria during the administrations of Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, wasted...
By Remi Oyeyemi… The brief exchange between Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Mrs. Folorunso Alakija at the 2016 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum last weekend was...
By Sonala Olumhense… Few articles in print can be as troubling as “The Spiritual Side of Aso Villa,” published by former Nigeria presidential adviser Reuben Abati...
Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of being responsible for Lagos not being granted special status. Akiolu spoke yesterday at the...
By Farouk Martin’s Aresa… Here we go again! We have not recovered from the excesses of past politicians that decided to sell Government properties to themselves,...
Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pointed at unemployment as a major problem facing the country at the moment and cautioned that if care is not...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he will continue to blame his predecessors for the persisting woes in Nigeria since he emerged President in 2015. He...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said there was nothing wrong for Nigerian government to sell national assets at a time of recession like the present one...
The former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has bemoaned ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s exit from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to him, “If it...
Like former President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, believes Nigeria has never been as divided as presently, since it’s amalgamation over 100...
Reacting, former Spokesman of ex- President Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode, took a swipe at President Buhari, saying that the president had...
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement accusing it of not leaving anything behind in its 16 years at the helms...
Former Nigerian leaders Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ), Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), Shehu Shagari and Yakubu Gowon, were absent at the Council of State meeting held in Abuja on...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that President Muhammadu Buhari has the right to seek for re-election in 2019, if he wishes. This is as he...
For visiting former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has been branded an enemy of the...
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...
A factional National Chairman of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ali-Modu Sheriff and former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo held a closed door meeting at his...
Governor of Jigawa state, Abubakar Badaru has absolved former President Olusegun Obasanjo of any blame over the economic recession that has hit Nigeria. He however declared...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has hit back on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), accusing its past presidents as the cause of the present economic recession in...
A former presidential adviser, Prof Ango Abdulahi, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the current war against terrorism and face the Niger Delta Avengers,...
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...
Award winning-producer, Jeta Amata has concluded arrangements with American actress, Vanessa Martini and Nollywood actor Enyinna Nwigwe for the adaptation of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s...
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo… (I started writing this article in March 2014, but for some unknown, warped reason, never completed it. I have now decided to...
By Reuben Abati… One other outcome of our democratic experience since 1999 is how demanding and insatiable the Nigerian voter has become, and because political office...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday lamented that at no time in history, has Nigeria been so ‘fractured’ as it is now. He argued that except...
There was a small frenzy over the weekend with the sighting of former President Olusegun Obasanjo at a PDP event. Observers were of the opinion that...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied returning to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Obasanjo, who was reported to have attended the inauguration of the convention committee...
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...
Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo was not wrong to say that National Assembly is corrupt. The former Chairman of the Committee on...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the alleged budget padding by the National Assembly only vindicates his claim that the federal lawmakers are “armed robbers...
President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting behind closed doors with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo arrived the Presidential Villa Abuja, about 12:54pm for the meeting; he is...
By Sonala Olumhense…Everyone knows the document now: the Government’s Sentencing Memorandum in the United States case against former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson of 2007. We...
Professor Wole Soyinka has lent his voice to recent calls for the restructuring of Nigeria, saying decentralization of the country would ensure healthy rivalry. The Nobel...
Former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Obong Victor Attah, has laid the blame for Nigeria’s loss of the oil rich Bakassi peninsula, squarely on former President Olusegun...
By Farouk Martins Aresa… Buhari one-year anniversary has been anything but glorious. It has been pitiful compare to his last time around. It is a different...
Senate President Bukola Saraki is reaching out to national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for reconciliation to stave off what his...
President Muhammadu Buhari had some weeks ago hinted he was going to name those who had looted the nation’s treasury on Democracy day. This was to...
By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani… President Muhammadu Buhari came to power promising Nigerians “change”. Novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani gives five examples of what has changed...
The governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday, warned gun wielding youths in the state against acts that could lead to another 1999 Odi massacre....
By Sonala Olumhense …Any student of history who has encountered the legendary South African figure called Shaka Zulu knows you either hate him or love him....
In the days leading to the nomination of retired General Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), many Nigerians had a...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied signing any budgets into law without sighting the details, as has been claimed in some quarters. The former President made...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Villa. Though details of their meeting are yet to emerge, the visit...
Former Nigeria leader Olusegun Obasanjo has explained what became of the funds recovered from Nigeria’s best advertised kleptocrat, General Sani Abacha. Calling the court of law...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has queried the capacity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to successfully subdue corruption in Nigeria. Speaking during his 79th...