Author: Olabanji Ayoola

One of Nigeria’s most revered royal fathers, the Awujale of Ijebuland, in Ogun State, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, has joined his ancestors. He was 91. The monarch passed away on Sunday according to palace sources. He reigned for 65 years, a record difficult to beat. Remarkably, he was renowned nationwide as a royal moral barometer, […]

[Press Release] It is with a deeply heavy heart that I received the news of the passing of my friend, my brother, my course mate, and a fellow soldier in the journey of nationhood — President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. Our paths crossed in 1962 when we both joined the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna. […]

The departed ex-President Muhammadu Buhari will be buried in Daura, Katsina State on Monday in line with Islamic rites. He passed in London about 4.30 pm on Sunday, His media aide, Garba Shehu, disclosed this on Sunday. Shehu had earlier announced Buhari’s death in a terse statement on Sunday, confirming that the former Nigerian leader […]

President Bola Tinubu has summoned an emergency session of the Federal Executive Council for Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in honour his departed predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a UK hospital on Sunday. This was in a tribute he signed Sunday evening, shortly after news of Buhari’s passing broke. The President confirmed that Buhari would […]

Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has commiserated with President Bola Tinubu, Katsina State government and people and family of the departed former President Muhammadu Buhari, over the latter’s passage. In a condolence message he signed, the governor wrote’ “I received the news of the passing of former president Muhammadu Buhari this afternoon. It’s one death […]

rallies Osun for coalition takeover By John Dike, Osogbo President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is a monumental failure that has subjected Nigerians to untold hunger, poverty, and insecurity, which deserves to be voted out in the next election according to the interim national secretary of the Action Democratic Congress, ADC, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. The former […]

President Bola Tinubu has described the death of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, as a national loss. He spoke on Sunday while announcimg the former president”s passage. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced […]

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has consoled President Bola Tinubu on the death of his predecessor in office, Muhammadu Buhari. Also, he commiserated with “the wife of the former president, Aisha Buhari and his entire family, praying to God to grant repose to his soul.” In a statement released on Sunday by his Special Adviser […]

Nigeria’s immediate former President Muhammadu Buhari has died. His death was confirmed on Sunday afternoon by his former spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, Shehu said Buhari died on Sunday at a hospital in the United Kingdom. According to the statement, “The family of the former president has announced the passing on of the former president, Muhammadu […]