David Mark, Dele Giwa, Abiola and other stories, By Lasisi Olagunju

Who killed Dele Giwa? Who was Gloria Okon and where is she today? How did David Mark accurately predict in 1994 that Sani Abacha would spend five years in power and would attempt to contest a multi-party presidential election with only himself as candidate? Why did M. K.O. Abiola contest the 1993 election even after […]

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Abiola won June 12 1993 election ―Babangida finally admits

Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has finally admitted, 32 years after, that Chief Moshood Kasimawo Abiola (MKO) of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) won the June 12, 1993 presidential election. Babangida, in his newly launched autobiography, ‘A Journey in Service,’ unveiled in Abuja, has revealed that the annulment of the election was […]

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Of Awolowo, Abiola and Obasanjo, By Akin Osuntokun

In the effort to decipher and formulate the chances of All Progressives Congress, APC candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidential aspiration, narratives and speculations have resurfaced on the political behaviour of the Yoruba. Employing the precedents of Obafemi Awolowo, Moshood Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo; Mr Farouk Kperogi of Saturday Tribune, for instance, came to the conclusion […]

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