Tag Archives: Awolowo

Nigeria can produce the highest quality individuals to run the most efficient governments and private institutions if we teach the right values, not only in our institutions of learning, but also imbibe national ethics of hard work, honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, among others. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, stated this today in Abeokuta, Ogun State while delivering the Centenary Lecture of ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Nigerian politicians of the present day are so boring that no high tension stories can be written about them. These politicians of nowadays cannot brew myths around their escapades as we used to have them in the good old days. Let me fire the first question: Where were you when Chief Obafemi Awolowo moved up to the ...

The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) says President Muhammadu Buhari must tender a posthumous apology to the late former President Shehu Shagari, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and all Second Republic political actors charged and jailed for corruption after the December 1983 coup. In a press statement released on Monday, OPC President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, said that the exorbitant fees currently imposed ...

By Felix Oboagwina Chief Tayo Soyode’s name may ring only a minimal bell in national politics outside the Progressives and South-West circles. However, this Marine Engineer-trained Lagosian is father and grandfather to seeds whose veins flow with the blood of two political giants. As son-in-law to Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Soyode has his children carrying the blueblood of the great man. ...

•As Osinbajo, Gbajabiamila, Ex-Govs, Family Honour Awo The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the Ibeju-Lekki axis of the State is prospering richly because of the prophetic utterances of the late sage and Premier of the old Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Governor Sanwo-Olu made the statement on Sunday evening after watching a stage musical drama performance ...

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu A seemingly innocuous spark in an otherwise isolated part of a nation can change the course of history. Nigerian history as we have it today owes its shape to the handling or mishandling of the Action Group crisis of the early 1960s. The initial crisis led to a chain of events culminating to the Nigeria/Biafra war ...