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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 6

By Seyi Oduyela

The event before and after the 1983 re-election of Alhaji Shehu Shagari was a very turbulent one. The ruling NPN did everything to "capture" the UPN c...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 5

By Seyi Oduyela

Late Chief MKO Abiola meant different things to different people. To some he was a man they hate to love and love to hate, to others he was a generous...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 4

By Seyi Oduyela

When Babangida annulled the Presidential primaries of SDP & NRC, it angered Yar'Adua and some other politicians; he also banned them from contesti...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 3

By Seyi Oduyela

In October 1986, on a Sunday two things happened to Africa and one particularly affected Nigeria. Samora Machel of Mozambique died in a plane crash, D...

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OWNERS OF NIGERIA -PART 2

By Seyi Oduyela

Under Alhaji Shehu Shagari, the Chadian gendarmes invaded Borno State, and the government ordered the deployment of troops from the 3rd Armoured Divis...

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OGONI BILL OF RIGHTS

By posted by Segun Toyin Dawodu

PRESENTED TO THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF NIGERIA NOVEMBER 1990 We, the people of Ogoni (Babbe, Gokana, Ken Khana, Nyo Khan and Tai) numbering ab...

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Of Obasanjo, Soyinka, Ige, and Adeyeye

By Mobolaji Aluko

THE STORY ACCORDING TO PUNCHThe PUNCHJuly 29, 2003Obasanjo takes up Soyinka on Ige's last lettero At last, PUNCH  gets Ige's last letter to the p...

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Of Obasanjo, Babangida, Buhari and Misrepresentation: A Rejoinder to Dr. Abdulrahman Muhammad, Umar Bello, and Sesan Koyejo's

By Reno Omokri LLB, BL, LLM

When I read Dr. Muhammad's article on the invading forces in Aso rock, I was rather impressed at the obvious patriotism of this intellectual. He was n...

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Of Aspiration And Responsibility

By Olusegun Adeniyi

culled from THISDAY, November 29, 2006Despite his frail, even saintly appearance and the butter-cannot-melt-in-my-mouth mien, Alhaji Umaru Yar'Adua ha...

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Odd Men For Odd Political Jobs: Its Time Up!

By Paul Mamza

If there’s anything special that President Obasanjo’s tenure had unraveled in its great details, it is the underbelly of the internal contradictio...

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OBJ ON CORRUPTION: A THUMB UP BUT…

By Paul Mamza

The President Olusegun Obasanjo’s high sounding speech to the nation on the fateful day of 22nd March, 2005 reminds one of the 31st December, 1983 c...

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OBJ and Atiku Should Be Impeached

By Michael Oluwagbemi

"When he [the president] keeps saying over and over again that I am corrupt, I keep looking at him. Because what I know is that he is richer than I am...

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OBJ: Beware of Phoney Friends

By Charles Azubuike

To be sure, the road to 2007 appears to be strewn with anxiety signs, especially given the desperation of politicians, bent on bringing down their per...

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OBASANJO WRITES TO BUHARI; BUHARI RESPONDS

ASO ROCK:Dear General Buhari:I feel constrained to write you this letter on an issue which I presume to be of common concern to you and me, first as m...

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Obasanjo Is Not That Desperate After All

By Farouk Martins

Some people do not know when to stop chasing a snake until it turns back and strike with venom. By Nigerian standard, leaders who were desperate for p...

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