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13 Jun 2022
Three persons collapsed on Monday during the military parade which held at the Eagle Square, Abuja, as part of the activities to mark the 2022 Democracy Day celebrations. The individuals, drawn from the different units of the military, eyewitnesses say, may have succumbed after being weighed down owing to pressure, having been standing hours long…
4 Apr 2022
Ms Hafsat Abiola, Director-General, Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation, says she is leading the campaign efforts of Gov. Bello because she sees the qualities needed to take Nigeria to its right destination in him.
24 Jan 2022
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has said that the late winner of June 12, 1993 presidential election, Moshood Abiola was not killed, rather he died after falling ill in detention.
15 Jun 2020
Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has said that the “Building our Future Together” agenda of his administration is to identify with the dreams and vision of Chief M. K.O. Abiola’s Hope ’93 campaign message.
14 Jun 2020
The celebration of June 12 as a national holiday began at a time of great social unease in Nigeria. Like the painting on a canvass, the mural throws up different perspectives and holds out varied meanings to the people. First, there was the annulment, which happened so much like rape. Then there was the long…
12 Jun 2020
Today is the 27th anniversary of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential elections won by Chief M.K.O Abiola. For a long while, Nigeria was under the jackboot of military rule and the rights of its citizens were reduced to that of subjects and the country....
18 Jun 2019
When the British Union Jack gave way for the hoisting of Nigeria’s national flag, which symbolized the end of colonial rule in Nigeria, millions of Nigerians poured into the streets and erupted into shouts of joy.
12 Jun 2019
Today marks the beginning of the celebration of Democracy Day on June 12. After about 25 years of ceaseless clamouring for the federal government to declare June 12 a national public holiday in honour of M.K.O Abiola...
12 Jun 2019
After 25 long and brutalising years, President Muhammadu Buhari on June 6, 2018, reflated wind into the sails of the small band of June 12 crusaders in the Southwest that were diminishing as the years went by.
20 Jun 2018
June 12, 1993 was the day eligible Nigerians trooped out in their numbers to choose between the late M.K.O. Abiola of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Alhaji Bashir Tofa...
20 Jun 2018
For the couple of weeks that I was away from this page, a lot happened which may have tremendous potential for the fortune of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term ambition.
13 Jun 2018
The hero of June 12, Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (M.K.O.) Abiola ‘resurrected’ yesterday in Lagos State and was clothed with well-deserved accolades. Dressed in colourful attires portraying freedom and triumph, Lagosians from all works of life gathered at the MKO Abiola Garden..

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