Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
18 Mar 2019
Sir: Love Tinubu at your own political leverage and advantage, or hate him at your own political perils. Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, popularly known as Jagaban, is a political juggernaut and master strategist. Controversially, what the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo couldn’t achieve or influence in his lifetime seems to have been providentially appropriated to…
6 Mar 2019
Chief Segun Osoba, a founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and a former governor of Ogun State, speaks on his party’s chances of retaining it in the coming gubernatorial election. He also criticised the incumbent governor, Ibikunle Amosun of anti-party activities. SEYE OLUMIDE reports Is the division in Ogun State APC not…
22 Feb 2019
41 years ago in the 1978 Nigeria Presidential Election - the front runners were Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and the Chief Nnamdi Azikwe, (all now late). The Nigerian power brokers at the time stressed the need to elect a Northerner to balance power rotation, elect a Muslim to balance the Christian leader of…
22 Jan 2019
The death of Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari at the sunset of last year marked the drawing down on the curtain of a generation of leaders in this nation. His place in the nation’s history is defined not only by the fact of being the first elected executive President but by his austere life style typical…
11 Jan 2019
Though I had some pressing issues that were yet to be resolved, my spirit was high as I drove that October afternoon. This was probably due to the music from the car cassette...
1 Dec 2018
The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Saturday described the late Dr Fredrick Fasehun as a renowned pro-democracy and good governance activist who left behind fine legacies. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Fasehun, also an active member of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), died at about 1am…
29 Nov 2018
Sir: Chief Obafemi Awolowo lived to witness the fulfilment of his desire for the creation of new regions - or, as some might view it, the balkanisation of the Northern Region. He was undoubtedly satisfied with General Gowon's 1967 efforts; there is no public record that he made input into Murtala Muhammed's 1976 state-creation exercise…
27 Nov 2018
Despite America’s independence and Democracy over hundreds’ of years, her people are still attached to their roots. You hear varied names like Irish Americans...
11 Oct 2018
Take it or leave it, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo would forever remain one of the greatest political leaders in the history of Nigeria.
3 Oct 2018
Is the reason for our arrested national development far-fetched? No, it isn’t. It takes a visionary, selfless and morally scrupulous national leader to revolutionise a country and take it to unprecedented economic and technological heights. A great national leader can envision and imagine the type of country he would like his country to become. Then,…
27 Sep 2018
On Friday last week, Samuel Oluyemisi Falae, head chief and leader, was 80 years. A two-day programme was drawn up to celebrate the great day, beginning with, predictably, a colloquium on the 21st, and on the 22nd Holy Communion which was followed immediately by a reception. I say predictably because Chief Falae has devoted a…
31 Aug 2018
There is an alarming rise in organised political defections in Nigeria. Although she is being hyped as the giant of Africa, the democracy in Nigeria is not practised like in countries such as Ghana, Sierra Leone, Botswana, Tanzania, Liberia, Senegal and Zambia with stable democracies. Nigeria’s version is a guided democracy and a democracy for…
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