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Obasanjo said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Monday

The meeting is ongoing as of the time of filing this report.

Obasanjo lamented that many of his friends have died of diabetes because they were unable to manage the disease.

Joda, the former chancellor of the Bells University Otta and friend of the former president for about 60 years died on Friday, aged 91.

Bello spoke on Friday during the first annual Governor Yahaya Bello seminar for correspondents in Abuja

Obasanjo spoke in a statement by his spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Monday

Speaking at the palace of the Shehu of Borno, in Maiduguri, Borno, on Thursday, Buhari noted that he started his administrative career as a military officer in Borno as a governor for seven months, under Gen. Murtala Mohammed.

If anyone was undecided whether Buhari was at the roots of Nigeria’s worsening ethnic crises in the last six years or so, that Arise TV interview removed all doubts. It revealed a president whose mind is a fertile breeding ground for viral ethnic divisiveness, an infection that is without any possible hope of redemption.

Obasanjo stated this in Abeokuta at his investiture as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyor by the Ogun State chapter of the Body of Fellows of the NIS

Obasanjo gave the assurance during his surprise visit Obasanjo Day Old Chicks Market, located at Oluyole Estate in Ibadan. The market was named after him.

A statement signed by Saraki’s Press Officer, Local Matters, Abdulqadir Abdulganiy, described the claims contained in a press statement by the Abdulrazaq government entitled ‘Assets: Try Saraki, Others for Criminal Conspiracies against Kwara. White Paper Panel Tells Gov’ as “fallacious.”

One of the persons who received the students confirmed the news to Daily Trust.

Obasanjo made the remark on Sunday in Sokoto when he laid the foundation for the construction of N3.4 billion nine-span Flyover Bridge in Sokoto metropolis.

Pantami used the opportunity of a post on Facebook by one Datti Assalafiy wrote to place the curse on Adeyanju, who once worked with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party

Obasanjo said this during an interview with an “International Institute” as revealed by a former Editor of the Tribune titles and columnist, Festus Adedayo, on Sunday

As he spoke, I placed him side by side all the presidents after him, in terms of depth and commitment to the Nigerian nationhood and I shook my head. To place him side by side President Muhammadu Buhari, for instance, would be a criminal comparison. Whoever attempted it should be tied to the stakes and shot

Abubakar described the late Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday at the age of 99, as a man whose life was one of service and a pattern of good works

Obasanjo and Gumi made this known in a jointly signed communique issued after they held a closed-door meeting at the Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, on Sunday.

Solutions to banditry, they emphasized, must involve ‘stick and carrot’ approach.

The younger Obasanjo, who is popularly known as Junwo Obasanjo, said Nigeria needed a youthful president in the next political dispensation to drive the nation positively