Tag: Olusegun Obasanjo
The Missing N500b SURE-P Funds
The disappearance of N500 billion from the Subsidy re-Investment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, funds has confirmed to Nigerians that the…
Breaking Bank To Regrass Stadium
When the National Stadium in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, was constructed in 2003 at a cost of N57.6 billion, tax paying…
Like Senegal, Let’s Abolish The Senate
By John Tosin Ajiboye Since Nigeria returned to democracy rule in 1999, a lot of things have been going wrong,…
Obasanjo led AU observers laud Zimbabwe polls
African Union poll observers, led by Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo, said Zimbabwe’s crunch presidential election Wednesday had so far…
PDP Convention: More Northern Govs To Meet With OBJ
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Nigeria, is far from over as more northern governors have scheduled…
Obasanjo leads AU election monitors to Zimbabwe
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo will lead a team of 60 African Union monitors to Zimbabwe for the July 31…
Baying For OBJ’s Head
Leadership Rescue Initiative, an advocacy group, launches a fresh call for a probe of the Olusegun Obasanjo years Media reports…
The Project Of Killing Nigeria Slowly
By Kanayo Esinulo The Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, who is also known as ‘The Chief Servant’, has…
Obasanjo: GDP not a good indicator of development
The phenomenal growth in Nigeria’s gross domestic product, long used as a marker for the country’s economic and human development,…
A Battle Chibuike Amaechi Must Fight
By Peter Claver Oparah To start with, I am no fan of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of Rivers State.…
Humanising Governance According To Governor Fayemi
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Back in recent time, when gubernatorial mandates were brazenly stolen in broad daylight under the watch…
Is PDP Armada Sinking?
By Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi There is this Yoruba idiom that says ‘Akuko Ko; which literally translates to: ‘a cock has…
Obasanjo reconciles PDP factions
Members of the various PDP factions in the western Nigerian state of Ogun on Monday, held a closed-door reconciliatory meeting…
Corruption: President Jonathan Must Wake Up
Malam Nuhu Ribadu, former chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, tells AYORINDE OLUOKUN and FEMI IPAYE that President Goodluck Jonathan…
President Jonathan’s Church Donation
Last Saturday’s fundraiser in Lagos, in aid of St. Stephen’s Anglican Church Deanery and Youth Development Centre, Otuoke, Bayelsa State…