Tag: Ibrahim Babangida
Buhari’s Applause For Akinwumi Adesina By Femi Adesina
The strife is o’er, the battle done. But it was by no means easy. It took so much: tact, diplomacy, guts, deft footworks, prayers,...
Oyedepo, CAN and the Islamisation agenda of CAMA 2020 By Festus...
As August 27 anniversary of the 35 years that wily military General, Ibrahim Babangida, gunned himself into office draws near, his baptism with a...
Buhari, Lawan, Others Salute As Babangida Turns 79
President Muhammadu Buhari and the President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan have joined other prominent Nigerians to send warm greetings to former military...
Tai Solarin, Mailafia, Lai Mohammed At A Reverie With George Orwell...
Any student of autocratic rule will tell you that free speech is always the first casualty of a budding despotism. So, watching the viral...
Ignorance Is The Greatest Poverty Afflicting Nigerians – Comrade Moshood Erubami
“Nigeria and Nigerians have great problems. The greatest poverty afflicting the country today is ignorance.
“Sometime in 2002, I told the then President Olusegun Obasanjo...
Dele Alake Tells How June 12 Democracy Day’s Struggle Started
Mr Dele Alake, a former Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State between 1999 and 2007, has narrated how the agitation to make...
Webinar: Sanwo Olu Hosts Tinubu, Blair, Soyinka,Others To Mark June 12
As part of plans to commemorate this year's National Democracy Day celebration, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat will...
Amaechi’s Theory Of The Monkey And Nigerian Politicians By Festus Adedayo
Away from the ravages of COVID-19 and the dispiriting news of multiple infections and rising deaths, the interview granted last week by Nigeria’s Minister...
A Postmortem On Dele Giwa’s Mangled Body By Festus Adedayo
Since that dark Sunday morning on October 19, 1986 when renowned journalist, Dele Giwa, was parcel-bombed by a God-knows-who, Nigerian journalism, Nigeria and government-journalism...
Babangida: ‘The Prince’ at 78 By Festus Adedayo
One of Nigeria’s arguably most impactful rulers, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, was 78 years old yesterday. Combatant Officer of the Nigerian Army who joined the...
