Addressing a crowded press conference in Abuja on Thursday to give details of the conference on: “Peace and National Development,” marking the 10th anniversary of the university, Kwanashie said the university has a mission of shifting back to universities the intellectual base for policy formulation in Nigeria
Browsing: Olusegun Obasanjo
He weighs every bit of his steps. For instance, against all cowardly advice, he defied the bulldozing government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to proclaim the birth of Local Council Development Areas in Lagos state. All hell was let loose. The Peoples Democratic Party-controlled Federal Government came for him with venom.
Obasanjo made the observation when he received one of the PDP national chairmanship aspirants, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, on Saturday in Abeokuta.
Fielding questions from newsmen at the event, Adams while thanking the South West Patriots Movement, with Awolowo Foundation and other supporting groups for the initiative, registered his support for the position of speakers at the event that meaningful development could be recorded in the South West’s educational and economic sectors only if it is able to secure regional autonomy.
He said that many Nigerians took the festival as a celebration beyond the physical but failed to realise that it was a celebration of Africa’s rich cultural diversities.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who monitored the exercise at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, reports that the congress was peaceful.
Obasanjo made his observations known at the annual public lecture of the Dorcas Oke Hope Alive Initiative
Obasanjo said the move of his military regime was scuttled by the regime of Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari
We are into shipping, banking, insurance. We are also in trading, which is my major traditional profession as an Igbere man, while all of our other businesses that were thriving during the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo have been moved out of Nigeria. This happened when the licenses of Hallmark Bank and Slok Airline were cancelled. We had to move to the region to remove First International Bank, which had been there since 1997, first opened in Gambia and spread to other Aest African countries and the international insurance company, we have investment of all over some insurance companies in Nigeria, some banks and the rest of them, So the major ones that were in control were these two institutions. We are into shipping. We are the largest shipping company in sub Saharan Africa and we are also transporting and supporting oil drilling. It has been ups and downs. Agriculturally, we export cocoa, we export cashew nuts and all major cash crops. We are also into manufacturing with 9,000 workers on the payroll, which is a fairly large group.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the war-affected police officers from the Old Eastern Region were pardoned and retired from the Nigeria Police Force through a Presidential Amnesty granted on May 29, 2000 by the administration of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Specifically, the Vice-President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo; former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo; former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki; and President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, who are co-chair of the AfricanChampion Club, urged top entrepreneurs in the continent to focus on job creation for their teeming unemployed youths as a way to ensure economic prosperity and poverty reduction in the continent.
The reason why Kachikwu is in tatters, while Baru is hiding under the formidable shadows of the President and his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, is because Buhari is involved. And that’s why when all is said and done, no NNPC Board, no Tenders Board, no FEC and, believe me, no National Assembly, can unravel the messy feud between Kachikwu and Baru
The confusion and power struggle between the then President Olusegun Obasanjo and erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar, though political, were fuelled by allegations of non-compliance with due process over activities of agencies under the purview of Abubakar, including the Petroleum Trust Development Fund. Court cases afterwards merely favoured the former Vice President.
Governor Ahmed stated this on Tuesday in Ilorin at the flag off of the distribution of free hearing aids to Hearing Impaired People of Kwara State, organised by Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation and Starkey Hearing Foundation.
Osinbajo made the declaration in his remarks at the 2017 Independence Day Interdenominational Church Service held at the National Christian Centre, Abuja
The feelers across Nigeria today are those of tension and unrest. More than ever in the history of this nation, the fortitude of our unity is not only being tested but also being questioned. These agitations is nothing short of the inability of the ruling All Progressives Congress to provide adequate and inclusive leadership across the country. Governance is a reflection of the society. So also is democracy a reflection of political party. Only a stable party with sound leadership can stir a heterogeneous country like Nigeria.
Indeed, some attributed Soyinka’s swift reaction to the age-long rift between him and the former President, but the truth is that many, all the same, never aligned with the stance by Obasanjo that Nigerians should rather restructure their minds and mentality instead of settling for restructuring of their country.
Two years of Buhari regime has shown that this country needs more than a corruption fighter to keep it one. Two years down the line this democracy needs democrats not converts. Obasanjo and Buhari have shown that soldiers can hardly be converted. It needs a broad minded person whose scope isn’t just his ethnic or religious environment but one with larger and spacious range
In a statement issued by the OPC in Lagos on Thursday and signed by its Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin, the group said the agitation of IPOB would be fruitfully addressed through dialogue rather than the military option being adopted by the Federal Government
Nasir El Rufai is a snake slithering through the crevices of the power edifice