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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), National Politics, Presidency
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
As President Goodluck Jonathan marks 100 days in office, hard knocks came yesterday from former Military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, saying Jonathan’s 100 days in office is a waste. Buhari, the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April, 2011. election, said that it is those who had misplaced […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Former military president and Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, General Ibrahim Babangida, has declared that he stands by his earlier comments that former president and Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, mismanaged the national revenue while in office. Speaking with journalists on the eve of his 70th birthday in […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Prince Charles Dickson
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
The old woman is asked to carry a child on her back, and she says but they know she has no teeth; was she asked to eat the child. When a nation with enormous wealth has a vast majority of its populace living under the poverty belt, it means that government is either not doing […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
AKURE— THE recent war of words between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, was yesterday described as a show of shame and naked dance in the public. A former member of the Supreme Military Council, SMC, and also a federal commissioner, Major General Olufemi Olutoye (rtd), who spoke on the […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), NNP Columnists, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo, London, UK – August 25, 2011 ‘When rogues fall out, truth is revealed, and honest men get justice.’ (1838 A. Jackson Letter 26 Mar. in Correspondence (1931) V. 545) The rogues have fallen out, and honest men may come by their own. (1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake xv) When thieves fall out, honest men come by […]
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Headlines, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
There’s something quite riveting about these two men: it’s all about their life stories and “great exploits” done at grave expense to the country. Their stories are both edifying and unsalutory in almost equal measure. And their saloon of admirers are always ready to defend their masters’ positions. For sure, the stories of these ex-soldiers […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
The national coordinator of National Democratic Forum (NDF), Mr. Jonathan Vatsa, has sent a passionate appeal to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Head of State , Ibrahim Babangida, to stop the verbal war between them, describing it as a show of shame by the two leaders. The NDF leader, who is a nephew […]
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Governors, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, State News, Taraba
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has expressed his happiness over the vision of governor Danbaba Suntai in the agricultural sector. He stated this in Jalingo when he led an America-based Kenyan, Mr.Calvin on a courtesy call on governor Suntai at government house, Jalingo on Friday. Chief Obasanjo appreciated the natural endowments in Taraba State, describing it […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), National Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Top Stories
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
The current face-off between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has been generating mixed feelings among eminent leaders. Where some of them see it as a ripe time for the government of the day to launch into the much demanded probe of failed past administrations of this country, others brush […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Friday, August 19th, 2011
A mixture of outrage and plea for ceasefire, on Friday trailed the altercations between former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida. The face-off was triggered by a comment credited to Babangida, describing the eight-year rule of Obasanjo as a failure in a comparative term. In his reaction, Obasanjo derided IBB, alluding […]
