Col Abubakar Umar rtd MY CFR NATIONAL HONOURS AWARD By COL ABUBAKAR D. UMAR (Retd) When the President called to inform me of his decision to magnanimously confer on me the National Award of Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR, on account of my much advertised role in the struggle for the validation of the…
Sule Lamido The presidency has accused former Governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido as an agent of disgruntled coalition working to unseat President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 election. The presidency was reacting to allegations made by Lamido that President Bola Tinubu supported the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election and that he…
Former governors of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, who played a critical role in Ibrahim Babangida’s political engineering in the 1990’s has told President Bola Tinubu that he honoured the wrong individuals who did not play any role in the fight for the actualisation of June 12, 1993, election struggle. He accused the president of recognising…
Fubara Millions of Rivers people, especially the loyalists of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, on Thursday, June 12, had their hope dashed as they had marked out the date to be a moment of wild jubilation and partying. The Vanguard reports that expectation everywhere was that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would use the opportunity of that date…
By Comrade Erasmus Ikhide President Tinubu’s comments on the disarray of opposition parties seem tone-deaf, given the pressing issues Nigeria faces. Instead of focusing on political opponents, shouldn’t the administration prioritize addressing the existential threats posed by Boko Haram, ISWAP, and Fulani Jihadism terrorists? The current state of the economy, security paralysis, power outages, and…
Al-Mustapha Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former chief security officer to the late military head of state General Sani Abacha, has dropped a bombshell revelation about events leading to the abortion of the June 12, 1993 elections. But he said he is not ready to tell the whole story yet until a later date. He claimed…
Photo: Vanguard Security operatives on Thursday prevented protesters access to the National Assembly complex, Abuja, where President Bola Tinubu was giving his Democracy Day state of address to the joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. The operatives barricaded the main gate of the National Assembly complex in a show of strength The…
BY PROF. MIKE OZEKHOME INTRODUCTION June 12 holds an indelible place in Nigeria’s political consciousness, a date now officially designated as the nation’s “Democracy Day”. More than just a public holiday, it serves as a sad reminder of a defining moment in Nigeria’s quest for democratic governance, intricately linked to the struggles of Chief Moshood…
The Ndi-Igbo Intellectual and Cultural Development Organisation (NIDO), a pro-Igbo advocacy group, has called on the federal government to correct what it describes as a glaring injustice by honouring the late Professor Humphrey Nwosu. The late Nwosu conducted Nigeria’s widely acclaimed June 12, 1993, presidential election. In a statement signed by its Director of Communications…
The governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo on Friday, vowed to pursue the failed recognition of the late Humphrey Nwosu, a former chairman of the defunct National Electoral Commission (NEC). Soludo while speaking at the funeral event of the late electoral umpire in his hometown, Ajalli, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State said…
