A leader in the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has appealed to leaders and stake holders in Kwara State to re-elect Governor AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq for a second term in Saturday’s gubernatorial election. In a chat with reporters in Ilorin, Olawepo-Hashim explained that although “I am aware that many leaders are angry with the governor (I also have …

A leader in the ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has maintained that the present brand of politics driven by personal ambition and self interests is the reason why politics is currently meaningless in Nigeria. Olawepo-Hashim explained to the media in Ilorin recently that only commitment to ideology and principle can bring the desired sanity and stability …

A leader in the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim has maintained that the failure to heed his warnings that “crude and narrow interests of the various power centres will determine the outcomes of primaries rather than what is best for the country” might have put the 2023 elections in a critical mess that may further entrap the nation. …

By Oluwasegun Abifarin 28th May 1989: The cloud had gathered over the University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. The drumbeat of the anti-SAP (Structural Adjustment Programme) uprising had sounded in Port Harcourt, Benin, Zaria, Ibadan, etc. And the “drummers” were in Akoka already. The stakes were high, and the odds equally high against the protest on campus that night. The University of …