Tag: Ibrahim Babangida
Presidency 2023: Okupe Boasts, Says He’s The Most Fairly Well Prepared
Ogun State-born politician and former presidential aide, Dr. Doyin Okupe has announced that he is the most fairly well-prepared person to be the next...
Is Babangida Also A Master Satirist? Asks Festus Adedayo
In 1964, the Nigerian Tribune’s editorial comment, entitled Where do we go from here?, a scurrilous attack on the Premier, Ladoke Akintola’s government of...
Buhari’s Government To Remove Petrol Subsidy Soon
The Minister of State for Petroleum Timipre Sylva has announced that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration will totally remove petrol subsidy soon.
The minister told reporters...
EndSARS Protest Was Hijacked, Misdirected, Buhari Tells Ex-Heads Of State
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday told former Heads of State and Presidents of Nigeria that it is unfortunate that the initial genuine and well-intended...
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...
