How Obasanjo, Ribadu Dealt With Me, My Pains, My Regrets, By Alamieyeseigha  
July 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
You needed to have seen Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, the former governor of Bayelsa State. In this very first tell-all interview with Sunday Vanguard, Alamieyeseigha discloses some disturbing truths about former President Olusegun Obasanjo and what actually led to his travails. Sober but not condescending, Alamieyeseigha admitted that mistakes may have been made but that they were made on the platform of expediency.

Why Babangida Must Not Run For Presidency Again  
February 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
In some quarters, he is regarded as the man who institutionalised corruption in the psyche of Nigerians. For this alone, I find it very difficult to warm up to him, because of my personal abhorrence to any form of corruption.

Abiola Was Beaten To Death, Says Al-Mustapha  
May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments
THE mystery surrounding the death in detention of the presumed winner of the 1993 general election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, deepened yesterday with another startling submission by the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha.

An Open Letter To Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, PhD, OON, Chairperson Of Transcorp And Director-General Of The Nigerian Stock Exchange  
August 15, 2008 | 1 Comments
Greetings. I apologize for the cumbersome heading of this letter. I may be dangerously approaching one and a half decades in the West, I am still very mindful of the importance of titles in Nigeria. I try to respect our sensibilities. I have also taken the liberty to address you as “Chairperson” as opposed to your normal designation as “Chairman” of Transcorp. You see, I live in North America and I don’t want wahala with the feminists. But I digress. I am writing to congratulat...

Just How Okay Is Mr. President? - Essay By Joel Nwokeoma  
April 21, 2008 | 1 Comments
FOR the umpteenth time, Nigeria was last week gripped with the confusing puzzle over the state of health of President Umaru Musa Yar' Adua. The palpable confusion over the President's health was widely reported by various national newspapers on Tuesday, April 15, a story that overshadowed, in significance, the 2008 budget that was finally signed by the President, after many months of roforofo fight between the National Assembly and the Executive.

ODUDUWA REVISITED - The Story Of Ooni Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II  
December 31, 2009
Born on New Year's Day in Ile-Ife in 1930 to Prince Adereti and Madam Emilia Ifasesin Sijuwade, the Kabiyesi spent his early years in Abeokuta, partly under the tutelage of another legend, the famous Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti at the Abeokuta Grammar School, between 1944 and 1947. His admission number into the Grammar School in 1944 was 2578! In 1947, the Sijuwade family relocated to Ile-Ife, where the future king completed his high school at the famous...

June 12, "Democracy Day" And The Myth Of MKO  
June 17, 2009
There has been a lot of revision of our recent history as a nation. One of these is the myth of the relations between June 12, MKO Abiola as the custodian of the June 12 mandate and the quest for democracy in Nigeria, typified by when should be characterized as 'democracy day' in Nigeria.
This is a contribution to de-mystifying the construct that such myths have given rise to

Mistakes Abiola Made � Segun Osoba  
June 13, 2009
Many Nigerians were at the receiving end in the aftermath of the annulment of June 12, 1993 election and the struggle to revalidate it.
Sixteen years after, Aremo Segun Osoba, former governor of Ogun State and one of the confidants of the late businessman and philanthropist, Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, told Saturday Sun a moving story about June 12, 1993 election. He also revealed the mistakes Abiola made.

June 12 - Kingibe, Not Abiola, Reason For Annulment -Bafyau  
June 13, 2009
Former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Pascal Bafyau, has said the choice of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Baba Gana Kingibe as running mate to the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Bashorun MKO Abiola, rather than the popular belief that the former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, wanted to sit tight in office was the reason for the annulment of that election, believed to be the freest and fairest in Nigeria's history.

Declare Abiola Third Executive President Of Nigeria, Says Fashola * Bankole, Utomi Lament State Of The Nation  
June 13, 2009
AS eminent Nigerians yesterday reviewed the state of the nation 16 years after the annulment of the June 12 election, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has called on the Federal Government to declare the late Chief MKO Abiola the winner of June 12, 1993 election with all the paraphernalia of office of Presidency given members of his family.