President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday in Abuja, said that former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) showed unusual courage and patriotism by admitting that Chief Moshood Abiola won the 12 June 1993 presidential election. President Tinubu, who was the Special Guest of Honour at the launch of Babangida’s autobiography, A Journey in Service, and the fundraising for the IBB Presidential …

Almost 32 years after his annulment of the 12 June 1993, presidential election — regarded to be the freest and fairest poll in the country’s history — the then military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) has finally admitted that the philanthropist and candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola won the election. The long-awaited …

At the first attempt to inaugurate the National Assembly of the aborted Nigeria’s Third Republic in 1992, then Lagos West Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, and now a presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress, revealed why former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.) singled him out for a handshake after the Presidential address to the assembly despite Tinubu’s frontal …

Nearly three decades after the epochal 12 June elections and the end of the Third Republic, journalists who chronicled that era under the aegis of the National Association of Political Correspondents (NAPOC 1990s) have come together to produce a book billed for public presentation on 20 September in Abuja. Titled, The Bookthe volume features 242 pages and 32 chapters put …

Last week as I re-arranged books and old newspapers in my library, I stumbled on a piece of historical evidence that I consider germane to the ongoing discussion on the direction towards 2023. The find was fortuitous because I did not set out to look for it. In fact, I never knew it existed or was there. It was the …