Mrs Kudirat Abiola was shot dead in her car in Oregun area in Lagos on June 4, 1996, at a time she was leading the campaign
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In any case, this is what can raise the Coalition from its moribund posture – to make the people to begin to think, because those who actually did not even understand democracy, and did not work for it have now come to eat where they have not sown; and they are everywhere. The nauseating thing about this struggle is that they are now the ones who have a voice.
The young Abiola said this via his Twitter handle @AbdulMKO Tuesday.
President Buhari had on June 12 conferred Nigeria’s second highest award, Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, on Kingibe as Abiola’s running mate
This was revealed by a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association and one of the activists that fought for the revalidation of the election, Chief Olisa Agbakoba, in an interview with Saturday PUNCH
These martyrs deserve a collective memorial, as a sign that the struggle for human freedom admits no statute of limitations
The party made the call in a statement by Malam Bolaji Abudullahi, its National Publicity Secretary, on Friday in Abuja, while commending Buhari for honouring Abiola with a posthumous Grand Commander of the Federal Republic.
Al-Mustapha, who fielded questions from newsmen in Kaduna on Monday shortly after he brokered peace between the North and South-Eastern part of country, said the Yoruba leaders received bribe in dollars from the killers of Abiola
Rt. Hon. Obasa gave this assessment in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Musbau Rasak, on the 23rd celebration of the historic election
I continue to draw strength and inspiration from her clear example in a country where, for most people, everything is negotiable. From her, I learned that it is better to stand with the truth even if it is to stand alone
She left her home in Opebi, Ikeja in her husband’s Benz 300 S-Class clearly unaware that some killers – Major Mumuni, Major Dan Asabe, Sergeant Rogers and one Major Daramola – were following her with an order from Abuja to kill her
The Court of Appeal in Lagos had on July 12 freed the duo of the murder charge in two separate judgments
Fasehun’s camp kicked against recent statements made in several print and broadcast media by Opadokun and Adams, who have derided Fasehun for campaigning for the release of Al-Mustapha
The Army, in a statement on Tuesday by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Ibrahim Attahiru, said the report that Al-Mustapha would automatically be made a General was erroneous
The appellants were set free from the Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos at about 5.30pm after spending over 14 years in detention for their alleged involvement in the murder of Kudirat
Al-Mustapha, the Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, and Sofolahan, Kudirat’s aide, were sentenced to death by a Lagos High Court on January 30, 2012
Available information has it that Joshua stood by Al-Mustapha throughout his days in incarceration
Shofolahan had emerged five minutes ahead of Al-Mustapha into the warm embrace of friends, who were also full of joy
Meanwhile, Yinka Odumakin, spokesman of Save Nigeria Group, has described the judgment as a big blow to criminal justice in Nigeria
The convicts were sentenced to death on January 30, 2012 by Justice Mojisola Dada, for conspiracy in masterminding the murder of late Abiola