Tag: Olusegun Obasanjo

Why Yar’Adua Cancelled Port Harcourt Refinery Sale – Falana

Ganiyu Amodu

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has claimed that former President Umaru Yar’Adua cancelled the sale of the Port Harcourt Refinery to a consortium led by business mogul, Aliko Dangote, because it didn’t follow due process. Recall that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had, in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday, said that in 2007, an offer of $750 million was made by the consortium to manage both the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries but was rejected by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. During the interview, Obasanjo disclosed that…

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BREAKING: Obasanjo calls for cancellation of presidential election where exercise was disrupted

Gbenga Adeoti

As the outcome of the presidential election and the alleged bias of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) continues to cause ripples, former President Olusegun obasanjo and former military head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, have weighed in strongly. Obasanjo in an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said Saturday’s presidential election failed integrity test and as such, the election must be cancelled. Gen Abubakar also spoke in the same manner in his letter. Obasanjo, who on January 1, openly endorsed the presidential candidate of the Labour Party,…

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Kenimani Complex, By Sam Omatseye

Sam Omatseye

“Stanley Macebuh, OBJ’s biographer, described the ex-head of state as “crafty, very crafty.” For the former ruler, every good guy must come down… he was a PHD before he had a PHD.The first as spoiler, the second as scholar.“   He was a PHD before he had a PHD. The first is an attitude while the second PHD is a certificate. The first played out as student, soldier, politician, head of state and ex-head of state. The second PHD was bestowed as ex-president. The first came on the street, office,…

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Olúségun Obásanjó’s Pounded Yam, By Lasisi Olagunju

ADEOLA YUSUF

“So, when I saw Tinubu in the home of ‘homeless’ Obasanjo last week, I saw irony in ways my literature teacher couldn’t teach me. If the axe forgot, would the tree forget too?”   Olúségun Obásanjó’s mother told him at the very beginning that if pounded yam is not much, it must be made hard and tough (iyán tí kò pò, ó gbodò yi). Read his biographies. Ashabi Obasanjo Bankole had only him and his sister, Adunni. Her hearth had enough embers, her mortar and pestle had diligence but her…

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Mambilla Mess: Who Will Love This Country? By Simon Kolawole

ADEOLA YUSUF

Insider report and analysis on Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Olu Agunloye, Sunrise, Michael Aondoakaa, Umoru YarAdua, Abubakar Malami and other players in Mambilla power contract and how they out-smarted one another in policy somersault and power play that has helped drag the sector on its kneels   On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, Dr Olu Agunloye, then minister of power and steel, presented a memo to the federal executive council (FEC). He sought its approval to award a build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract for the Mambilla Hydropower Project to Sunrise Power…

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Obasanjo Speaks As Owu Gets 300-Man Committee For Matemilola’s Coronation

Gbenga Adeoti

Why the ex-Military governor of Ondo State, Major General Ekundayo Opaleye-led Committee may hold installation ceremony of the new monarch and the year 2022 Odun Omo Olowu celebration at the same period   Against the background of the current economic situations in the country, former President, Chief Obasanjo on Thursday, tasked members of the planning committee for the installation ceremony of the new traditional ruler of Owu land, Abeokuta, Oba Engr.. Saka Matemilola to be frugal in their sendings. Obasanjo made this disclosure at the formal inauguration of the about…

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JUST IN: Ex-IGP, Tafa Balogun, Dies 20 Days To 75th Birthday

Scott Matthew

TAFA AND HIS BATTLE: How, through a resignation letter he didn’t author, the Police ex-Chief was forced out of the force by the Obasanjo-DSS–Ribadu triangle + what large-scale corruption allegation got to do with it   A former Inspector General of Police, Mustafa Adebayo Balogun, also known as Tafa Balogun, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that the former Police boss reportedly died at Reddington Hospital in Lagos 20 days to his 75th birthday. READ ALSO: Disconnecting Electricity Consumer Without 10 Working Days’ Notice Illegal —FCCPC Kano Girl-Hawker In Viral Maths…

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Nigeria’s Top Petroleum Engr., Dr. Saka Matemilola, Is New Olowu of Owu

Damilola Olonade

Meet former chairman, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and associate Professor at African University of science and technology newly announced as the 14th monarch for ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-Judge of the World Court, Bola Ajibola, and former governor Ibikunle Amosun’s ancestral home   The Ogun State Government has announced a top petroleum engineer and an associate Professor at African University of Science and Technology, Dr. Saka Matemilola, as the new Olowu of Owu in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of the state. Platforms Africa reports that Dr. Metemilola, a former…

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Ask Your Cousin, Obasanjo, for Ige Murder, Omisore Tells Wole Soyinka

Gbenga Adeoti

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretary Senator Iyiola Omisore has accused people he described as “drowning politicians” of spreading propaganda against him. He lamented that a decade after the Bola Ige murder case, Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka still referred to him as a prime suspect, despite being cleared by the court. Omisore,  a former deputy governor of Osun State, said it was curious that Soyinka, who accused the Obasanjo government of complicity in Ige’s death when he described the government “as a nest of killers”, could now describe him…

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How Explosion Rocked Obasanjo’s Multi-million Dollars Library, Killed 2

Gbenga Adeoti

  “Trust Africans, some locals are already erroneously suspecting that the explosion at Obasanjo library and Daniel’s hotel that killed 2 each within same area barely 24 hours to each other may be for rituals. But, surely, there are technical questions to be answered from these two incidents.”   More details have emerged on the gas explosion that rocked and killed two persons at the multi-million dollars Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria. The explosion occurred barely 24 hours after 2 people were also killed in a similar…

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