Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday counselled Nigerian leaders to stop blaming God for the myriad of challenges confronting the country. The ex-president, who stated this at a forum held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, called for a change of narrative in Nigeria as year 2021 approaches. Obasanjo said with enormous resources
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Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday jetted to Ethiopia to mediate in the conflict between the nation’s government and the northern Tigray region, his spokesman said. “He is on his way to Addis Ababa for talks,” Kehinde Akinyemi told AFP on the visit of Obasanjo to the Ethiopian capital. “He is going there for
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Former Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo State has said that the former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement on how he was impeached as Governor in 2005 is false. This disclosure was made known in a statement by Ladoja’s media aide, Alhaji Bashir Lanre Latinwo, on Friday. It could be recalled that Obasanjo disclosed how the former
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Former Nigeria’s President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, unravelled reasons during his reign as military head of state, why he supported the candidacy of late Alhaji Shehu Musa Yar’Adua who was the Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters over the ex-Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae in 1992, during the pre-election preparation
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President Buhari is currently in a closed door meeting with former leaders of the country. This is coming on the heels of the increasing level of insecurity in the country. According to Bashir Ahmad, the Personal Assistant to the president, the former leaders in attendance include Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ernest Shonekan and
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One of the notable and front line senators that fought former president, Olusegun Obasanjo’s third term agenda, senator Yushua Anka is dead. According to a press statement by one of the senator’s relations, Alhaji Ibrahim Anka, the senator died in Abuja after a protracted ailment. Senator Anka was an inlaw to former governor of Zamfara
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Following the ban of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) routine patrol, Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has commended the decision of Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu. Channels TV reports that Nigeria’s second in command disclosed this on Sunday, October 4, while speaking to State House reporters at his residence in Abuja. While describing
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The Governor Bala Mohammed-led Peoples Democratic Party 2019 Election Review Committee has held separate consultative meetings with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida and former Senate President, David Mark. Mohammed and members of his team, which include former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido; and his Niger State counterpart, Babangida Aliyu, met
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The presidency on Wednesday reacted to the criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration by the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka. Soyinka had in a statement on Tuesday corroborated ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s position on the state of the nation. He said the country was divided as never before under President Buhari’s leadership. But in his reaction,
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Professor Wole Soyinka has uncharacteristically backed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement on Nigeria slowly becoming a failed state. Soyinka expressed that Obasanjo’s warning apparently fell on deaf ears with the Presidency’s reaction, stating that Nigeria “has been obliged to endure has been insolent distractions from garrulous and coarsened functionaries, apologists and sectarian opportunists.” The Nobel
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Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the country was fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state. Obasanjo, who blamed the situation on recent mismanagement of diversity and socio-economic development of the country, also lamented that economically, Nigeria was becoming a basket case. He spoke at a consultative dialogue on Thursday attended
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday declared that in Nigeria today, over 14 million children that should be in school were not in school, and thereby deprived of education.Obasanjo made this known in Lagos at the virtual 2020 Fellowship Graduation Ceremony of the second cohort of “Teach for Nigeria Fellows”.Obasanjo said: “They are deprived of
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A former President , Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has asked African youths to dislodge older generation from leadership positions . Obasanjo enjoined the youths to participate actively in the activities of political parties with a view to taking over the structure from them . Obasanjo said this on Wednesday while delivering a keynote address at an
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Reports coming from Ogun State in Nigeria, reveal that fire has gutted a house belonging to a former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo situated at the Ita-Eko area of Abeokuta, the state capital. The fire reportedly broke out in the house around 10pm on Wednesday. Some eyewitnesses told newsmen that the fire was caused by a
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