Olusegun Obasanjo
19 Oct 2023
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s stand-up order on some monarchs in Oyo State to show respect for him is an open disparagement of the Yoruba traditional institution and an unfortunate show of disdain for the culture, norms and values of the South West people.
12 Oct 2023
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, urged African leaders to find home-grown solutions to the myriads of problems confronting the continent.
5 Oct 2023
Chukwuemeka Ezeife, governor of Anambra State during Nigeria's aborted Third Republic couldn't have put it any better. Dissecting the role of deputy governors in the nation's nascent democracy years back, Ezeife described them as "spare tyres...
2 Oct 2023
Politicians and scholars are calling for a review of the variant of democracy that is in vogue in Africa, where citizens don’t get rewarded with a better life and the electoral process becomes something like magic, such that it becomes easier to take a voyage ....
26 Sep 2023
Almost two decades after the contract for dualisation of the 338-kilometre East-West Road was awarded in four sections to four different contractors under the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, each subsequent administration has turned the Eleme-Onne....
20 Sep 2023
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday in Abeokuta said he never wanted to be a politician but only became one by accident. Obasanjo said this while speaking with a group of youths under the aegis of Africa for Africa Youth Initiative (A4A) at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL). The former president stated that the…
20 Sep 2023
Monarchs in Oyo State have said they have no regret supporting Bola Tinubu and Governor Seyi Makinde in the last elections. They were reacting to the outburst by former President Olusegun Obasanjo against traditional rulers during inauguration of the Iseyin Campus....
17 Sep 2023
As a young man growing up in the West in the 70s, it took me a while to recover from the brutal assassination of General Murtala Muhammed in a military coup in 1975. The mood of the nation was down. Shortly after, however, General Obasanjo ...
17 Sep 2023
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has expressed dissatisfaction over an alleged verbal assault former President Olusegun Obasanjo meted out on a cross section of traditional rulers from the state at an official function hosted by Governor Seyi Makinde in Iseyin last Friday.
11 Sep 2023
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, had proved his critics wrong by turning out to be a result-oriented governor, his mastery of dance notwithstanding.
7 Sep 2023
The presidency has told the former President Olusegun Obasanjo that he is not the one who will decide whether Nigeria’s oil refineries will work or not. The former ruler said he tried to get Nigeria’s oil refineries working but was not successful and suggested President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s plan to do the same will not…
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