The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has dismissed the state pardon granted the Ogoni 9 by President Bola Tinubu, describing it as morally unjust. The anti-corruption centre noted Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others killed by Gen Sani Abacha military junta never committed any crime in the first place, that would warrant the president…
Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has welcomed President Bola Tinubu’s planned visit to Benue State. The visit is coming after a wave of deadly attacks by suspected herdsmen last weekend that claimed 200 lives. The presidency announced on Monday that the President is scheduled to visit Benue on…
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…
There is a growing storm within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over an alleged plot to drop Vice President Kashim Shettima as President Bola Tinubu’s running mate. The controversy boiled over on Sunday at a North-East stakeholders’ meeting in Gombe, which ended in chaos. What was billed as a show of support for President…
L – R: Fayose, Wike, Tinubu, Ortom, Ikpeazu President Bola Tinubu on Saturday evening held a closed-door meeting with some prominent members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and three former governors, Ayodele Fayose (Ekiti), Samuel Ortom (Benue), and Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia). The meeting, which…
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…
Major opposition parties in the country took on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for publicly expressing his happiness over the ongoing crisis in their folds ahead of the 2027 general elections. The president had while addressing a joint session of the National Assembly on the occasion of Democracy Day celebration Thursday in Abuja, said he is…
By Johnson Momodu In the sweltering heat of Abuja, where the Aso Rock Villa casts a long shadow over Nigeria’s capital, an unusual alliance is reshaping the nation’s future. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a veteran strategist with relentless drive, stands at the helm of Africa’s most populous democracy. Across the city, in the red-carpeted chambers…
Primate Elijah Ayodele, leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, has warned President Bola Tinubu ahead of 2027 election, advising him not to replace the Vice President Kashim Shettima as his running mate. In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele called on the President to resist the pressure to replace…
Ken Saro-Wiwa President Bola Tinubu has granted pardon to the late Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni-9 who were convicted for murder and executed in 1995 by Gen Sani Abacha. In his Democracy Day address President Tinubu also conferred on them posthumous award, Thursday. Saro-Wiwa and eight others were hanged after a controversial trial by a…
