Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has explained how he was able to survive what he described as evil plan of former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, to kill him, after his arrest, alongside General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and business mogul and winner of the 12 June 1993 elections, Chief Mko Abiola, attributing his survival to the special grace of God. …

Some broken hearts never mend Some memories never end Some tears will never dry Our pains over 12 June will never die! Adapted from Don Williams’ Some Broken Hearts Never Mend On the day former self-styled military President Ibrahim Babangida celebrated his 70th birthday, I was in Minna, the Niger State capital where the self-styled ‘evil genius’ has his palatial …

There is still a long way to go before beating the chests that the course has been steadied. And Tinubu knows it, despite the claims in his Democracy Day speech. The attempts by President Bola Tinubu to whitewash Nigeria’s democracy in his address on Wednesday, 12 June 2024, were vigorous and obvious. It was such that an outsider could fall …

This month, almost to the week, three years ago, we revisited our lamentations on the epochal fallouts, and consequent upheavals that dogged the incidents that culminated into what we have called the new-old “Democracy Day”. It was titled “Once Upon A 12 June”. Three days ago, we marked the 2024 version of our Democracy Day with some stumbling drama, high-octane …

Yesterday, 8 June 2024, General Sani Abacha clocked 28 years in the grave. Abacha’s sudden expiration at the thick of his maximal and maniacal rule reminds Nigerians, especially those who were old enough in 1998 when he died, of how human beings should never play god. Abacha ruled with iron fist, after his seizure of power. He summarily executed dissidents …