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2019: PDP set to woo Obasanjo, Atiku, Saraki, others back to party

Ihesiulo Grace 9 August 2017 0

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Tuesday that it will work towards ensuring that former president Olusegun Obasanjo, erstwhile vice president Atiku Abubakar, Senate President Abubakar Saraki and all those who held top political offices under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) return

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Obasanjo accuses Nigeria Police of unseriousness

Ihesiulo Grace 3 March 2017 0

The former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday blasted the Nigeria Police Force saying the police institution is not a serious organization. He stormed out of the training event organised by the Zone 2 Police Command. Onikan, Lagos for Police officers under the command where Obasanjo was the Special guest of honour. The former leader […]

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Obasanjo Recalls Chidhood Exprience

Ihesiulo Grace 1 March 2017 0

Former Nigeria President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday said the various means of training children through folktales and storytelling is one of the ways of entrenching discipline and good virtues on children. Obasanjo, who gave the advice at a programme tagged ‘Story Time With Baba,’ held at his ancestral home in Ibogun in Ifo council […]

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Obasanjo Vs Awujale: A delayed showdown

Ihesiulo Grace 8 January 2017 0

The book is nearly seven years in print but I didn’t get a hold of it until sometime last year. I have since read the autobiography – Awujale – twice and was not disappointed. Anyone who has read Awujale might agree that it was a bomb waiting to explode. The surprise is why it took […]

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OBJ Presents Growth Formula to Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 15 May 2015 0

Indications emerged yesterday that months before the presidential election was conducted, a think-tank on moving Nigeria forward in a new regime had been working away from public glare. This became evident on Thursday when a document containing recommendations to guide the incoming government on a smooth take-off was submit­ted to the President-elect, General Muhammadu

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Real Losers of the Presidential Election

Ihesiulo Grace 1 May 2015 0

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel. Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar lov had him! This was the most unkindest cut of all; for when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mightyheart . . .. Julius Caesar Act 3, scene […]

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Nigerian Politicians and Crab Mentality

Ihesiulo Grace 18 April 2015 0

It was my friend Oyetoro Oluwaseyi in one of his write ups that said “we are in a country where we politicise everything that happens to us. If water is running on a daily basis in APC’s bathroom, PDP is at fault- they are wasting our resources, if water is not running at all in […]

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Run Away from Obasanjo, Senator Owie Tells Buhari

Ihesiulo Grace 17 April 2015 0

Nigeria’s President-Elect. Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to avoid former president Olusegun Obasanjo if he intends to succeed in leading Nigeria. Former Chief Whip of Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, gave the advice to the president-elect in a press statement released in Benin on Wednesday. According to Owie, Obasanjo is one bad leader that fights a […]

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Vote Exactly the Way You Did Last Saturday – Obasanjo

Ihesiulo Grace 5 April 2015 0

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to go out in thousands next Saturday and vote in the governorship and state House of Assembly elections as they did in the March 28 election, which produced the President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), of the All Progressives Congress. He said this on Saturday during a surprise visit to Itoku […]

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Buhari: Quitters Don’T Win…

Ihesiulo Grace 1 April 2015 0

After losing the last Presidential election in 2011, Muhammadu Buhari, a retired General and generally regarded as an uncompromising strongman, surprisingly shed tears, regretting that it was a shame that Nigerians failed to elect him into office in order to change the country. It was his third time of contesting the presidency and loosing. The […]

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Babangida slams anti-military political broadcast

Ihesiulo Grace 26 March 2015 0

Former President Ibrahim Babangida has flayed what he described as an attempt to ridicule the military institution in the name of politics. Babangida, who took note of a television documentary reportedly aired on Tuesday night on a private television network to project President Goodluck Jonathan ahead of the presidential election, lamented that the president’s backers

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Obasanjo Warns against Coup

Ihesiulo Grace 25 March 2015 0

  Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday warned those contemplating a military coup in the country or handling over to the military to desist from doing so as such is no longer fash­ionable. Obasanjo stated this while host­ing the South West women wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Hadjia Aisha, wife of […]