Tag: Olusegun Obasanjo
How Suspect Exposed Buruji Kashamu
The drug trafficking case involving the leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the southwest, Buruji Kashamu, first blew…
The full text of the letter of Edwin Clark to Obasanjo
Please click the link here to read the full text of Chief Edwin Clark’s letter to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo: Chief…
The Ominous Political Tension
On 2 December, 2013, former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan to express his perceived…
Jonathan drags OBJ to rights body, ICPC, EFCC
The public spat between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan is far from over. Yesterday, Jonathan asked the…
Obasanjo, Jonathan, The Message And The Messenger
By Peter Claver-Oparah There is little doubt that the recent letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the incumbent President…
An Open Letter To OBJ And Nigerians
By Yahaya Balogun Dear Sir, Your open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan few days ago, going viral on the internet…
Don’t Impeach Jonathan Yet, Say Nigerians
Following the call by the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan, some Nigerians are of…
Don’t take Nigeria to Abacha days, APC begs Jonathan
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the Jonathan administration not to take Nigeria back to the dreaded and calamitous…
Letter To Jonathan: Nigerians Gun Down Obasanjo
Activists, lawyers and others have likened former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter bombing President Goodluck Jonathan as that of a pot…
Let The People’s Will Be
Nigeria came into being through the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates by Sir Frederick Lord Lugard in 1914.…
Obasanjo Blasts Jonathan, Writes 18-Page Letter To President
A frustrated Nigerian ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has written a critical letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of ineptitude and…
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…
BIAFRA: Ogbemudia Clarifies US Secret Files
At 80, Brigadier Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia (retd.) is in good health except for a recent accident, which warranted his use…
Praises for Obasanjo as he turns 76
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta President Goodluck Jonathan has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a true father and elder statesman, reassuring…
Obasanjo Calls For Cultural Security In Africa
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on Africans to guide their cultures jealously. Addressing participants at the regional summit on…
Obasanjo On Benjamin Adekunle
Olusegun Obasanjo, the man to whom Biafra surrendered, was of the view that Benjamin Adekunle was mentally and physically jaded…