It is inhuman for anybody who is enjoying today’s democracy to be reading shaming innuendoes to Buhari’s redemption of Abiola’s memory. Whether the reverse injustice against Abiola is done in desperation, illegal, unconstitutional, belated or is a suave way to woo the Yoruba, President Buhari has been able to price open the past in order to heal the present and look forward to a better future
Browsing: Chief Obafemi Awolowo
There is no doubt that his age would be an issue in that election.
Osinbajo, who was the Special Guest of honour at the event, stated that as at December 2017, only 943 Nigerians paid self-assessed taxes of less than N1 million.
This emphasis on ideology, party politics, and Awoism is important as an entry point into the interrogation of Chief Ayo Adebanjo’s politics
For Ondo State that owes its survival to the monthly statutory allocation from the Federal Government and where industrial development is at its nadir, the truth is that the government cannot and should not be expected to single-handedly shoulder the burden of financing education
Osinbajo posted the poem on his Twitter handle
Being a speech by Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, during his defection to the All Progressives Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party at Campos Square in Lagos on November 25, 2017. The speech was titled: “The Exigency of Time and the Dynamism of Politics”
The edifice, located at Piwoyi, on the Airport Road, within the Federal Capital Development Authority’s designated Educational and Research Area, houses a factory equipped with the latest version of GOS Community Web printing press machine
Chief S.L. Akintola, his bitter political rival and the second Premier of the Western Region, also lost his first daughter in the early 60′s and a few years later lost his third and youngest son. His second son was also cut short in his prime a number of years later.
Adams said the present arrangement of fusing Culture and Information Ministries has led to serious retrogression in the culture sector and that the situation could get worse if not quickly arrested
Ambode carried out the unveiling of the statue, located on Obafemi Awolowo Way by the Lagos Television junction in Ikeja on Tuesday
The imposing bust, located on Obafemi Awolowo Way by the Lagos Television junction in Ikeja, is a befitting replacement to the old Awolowo statue that was removed from the Allen Avenue Roundabout in Ikeja.
Oba Adeyemi in his tribute on the death of General Adebayo, also described him as a symbol of Yoruba unity irrespective of political differences
Aregbesola on Wednesday said his government decided to establish new Local Council Development Areas in order to consolidate on the efforts of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief Bola Ige
According to the poet, debates between Awolowo, the Vice Chairman of the Federal Executive Council and Federal Commissioner of Finance under General Yakubu Gowon and Attah, were such that gave Awolowo the profound success he recorded in the cabinet
In recognition of this support, I, Akinwunmi Ambode, in your presence and in the presence of God, formally put myself forward to run for the position of the governor of Lagos state
You need to tell me what is wrong with me that makes me unsuitable for that position for a second time
Even comparatively stable societies, founded on democratic principles, continue till today to question the place and the role of Religion in national life. The only different between such a nation and ours is that, over yonder, it is not being pursued as a life-and-death issue, but as a fundamental, character forming principle of nation being