A former Minister of Education, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili has reaffirmed her stance against adopting the new National Anthem signed into law by President Bola Tinubu. Ezekwesili made this known while reacting to a video of Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu publicly rejecting the newly adopted National Anthem, choosing to sit during its recitation at a recent event. Joining Yesufu in protest, …

The former Minister of Education, Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili has said that she would not revert to the old national anthem, now approved by President Bola Tinubu as the country’s new anthem. In a post on her X handle on Wednesday, the activist said that no one can suppress her right to dissent from what she described as an “obnoxious law repugnant …

Obiageli Ezekwesili is like a daughter to me. Even when she was a minister, I treated her the same way I treated my biological daughters. She was a dynamic young woman, who is competent, reliable and very enterprising. As she, therefore, clocks 60 today, I cannot but thank God for her life, as I wish her more fulfilling and glorious …

A former Minister of Solid Minerals, Dr Oby Ezekwesili has said that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was not the Head of the Economic Management Team (EMT) during the period he was deputy to President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo was president between 1999 and 2007, while Atiku served as vice president. Ezekwesili was Minister …