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Boko Haram, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Former Special Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Media and Publicity, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has faulted statements credited to Boko Haram that it was responsible for the killings in Plateau State on Saturday and Sunday. Okupe told our correspondent on the telephone on Wednesday that the claim of the Islamic fundamentalists was an attempt to […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA — Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has asserted that he investigated former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his vice, Atiku Abubakar, during his tenure as head of the nation’s most visible anti-corruption agency. Ribadu, who spoke, yesterday, at a special Visitors’ Forum, organised by […]
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Local Govt, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
June 20, 2012 A High Court in Ilaro, Ogun State on Tuesday ruled that only the state Executive Committee of the People Democratic Party led by Chief Bayo Dayo has the authority to nominate candidates for the July 21 council election in the state. Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu also restrained the PDP national headquarters from submitting […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
Nigeria marks her 13th year of straight democratic governance without interference. So far, it has been an eventful period for everyone, not only by virtue of being the longest stretch of uninterrupted democratic governance we have ever had since we achieved independence in 1960, but by what we all have learnt in terms of the […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was under attack yesterday over his comment that “there are more rogues and armed robbers in the State Assemblies and the National Assembly”. Obasanjo spoke on Tuesday at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Academy for Entrepreneur Studies Nigeria (AES) at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in Lagos. Former […]
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Legislature, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Senate
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
By OKEY NDIRIBE, Henry Umoru, Inalegwu Shaibu & EMMAN OVUAKPORIE ABUJA —THE Senate, yesterday, dared former President Olusegun Obasanjo to be courageous and name the rogues and armed robbers in the National Assembly. According to the Senate, if the former Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP could, in the spirit […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
FORMER president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said insecurity in the country is giving us a bad image and has begun to adversely affect flow of investment into the country. The former president made the disclosure, while presenting a paper, entitled: “Governance and Security,” in a national symposium organised by the Jigawa State government, in commemoration […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Replacement for former president and immediate past chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo would emerge through consensus. The secretary, BoT Senator Walid Jibrin dropped the hint yesterday even as he allayed fears that Chief Obasanjo’s resignation would upset the party’s machinery. The former president had resigned on Tuesday […]
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Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, South-West
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
By Rotimi Ajayi, Emeka Mamah & DAUD OLATUNJI LAGOS — Less than 24 hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo resigned his position as the Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the leadership caucus of the party has started brainstorming on who could suitably fit into the shoes of the ex-President. […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has resigned as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP. In a statement he signed and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday, Obasanjo said he had sent the letter of resignation to the chairman of the party. “I have formally sent in […]