President Buhari at the June 12 inaugural National Democracy Day Celebration at the Eagle Square in Abuja. Photo/Twitter/AsoRock It was meant to be the celebration of a democratic milestone witnessed by people of the home country and leaders of other nations. But yesterday’s Democracy Day left many observers puzzled as none of Nigeria’s former leaders […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday honoured the winner of the June 12 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, by renaming the Abuja National Stadium after him. The President said this in a speech he read at the first National Democracy Day celebration in Abuja, stating that he approved June 12 as the nation’s […]
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Being the full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech, which he delivered at the maiden celebration of Nigeria’s Democracy Day on June 12, 2019 Protocols 1. All praise is due to GOD Almighty, who spared our lives to be present at this great occasion. We give thanks also that the democratic process has been further […]
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None of the former heads of state and presidents attended the Democracy Day celebrations at Eagle Square in Abuja. The event is the first since President Muhammadu Buhari approved June 12 as Democracy Day in honour MKO Abiola, presume winner of the 1993 presidential election. Since return of democracy in 1999, May 29 had been observed […]
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Twenty-six years after the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, which was won by Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola, his first son and present head of the extended Abiola family, Kola Abiola, has opened up on his father’s struggle to win the election and reclaim his mandate after the results were cancelled. In this exclusive interview in […]
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By Martins Oloja This week, I was prepared to write on one of those ‘national topics’ as we often do when I received a post on ‘whether Ondo State is jinxed,’ forwarded by one of my big brothers, Uncle Eric Teniola, who hails from Ondo state. The thought-provoking brief triggered this article on the state of […]
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Abdulmumuni, son of the late Chief MKO Abiola, has bemoaned the lack of progress in the country since 1993. Speaking on the June 12 (Democracy Day) the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola’s son lamented that the education and health sectors had collapsed. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed into law the Public Holiday (Amendment) Bill, making […]
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Early years and education Born in 1959, Lawan completed his primary education at Sabon Gari Primary School, Gashua in 1974 and then enrolled at Government Secondary School, Gashua where he obtained his O’Level in 1979. From there, he proceeded to University of Maiduguri where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Geography in 1984. Same year, […]
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Ibrahim Babangida The then Military President eclipsed his eight-year reign (1985- 1993) with the annulment of the June 12 presidential election. He had after four years in power (1989) came up with the idea of two political parties – Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC) and urged all Nigerians to join either […]
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By sola Lebile The day had ripped but the dull weather gave it a morning colour. It was a wet Monday and still another rain was approaching. Everywhere anywhere, the rain was showing its watering presence. And as I was waddling through the numerous posts on that chilly day when the news propped up, announcing […]
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