Archive for January, 2010
Obasanjo is an Honourable Man…
Shareby Simon Kolawole
Honour has a new admirer. Morality has a new sweat heart. His name is Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Speaking at an event in Abuja on Thursday, Obasanjo released his most direct salvos against President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua since the ex-president honourably imposed the Katsina man as his successor in 2007 via elections that were [...]
January 24, 2010
Tags: obasanjo, ojo maduekwe, Yaradua Posted in: Simon Kolawole
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Obasanjo On Obama: Two-faces And A Forked Tongue
ShareBy Sonala Olumhense
EVERY Nigeria ought to read “Obama’s election and the needed change,” in The Guardian of October 6, 2008. It is painful to read, but it was Aristotle, remember, who taught that “We cannot learn without pain.”
The article was penned by Olusegun Obasanjo. This is a man that had two chances to serve his [...]
January 24, 2010
Tags: obama, obasanjo Posted in: Sonala Olumhense
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As Obasanjo Ditches Yar’Adua
ShareBy Reuben Abati
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s prayer at the Annual Trust Awards that God should punish him if indeed he deliberately chose as his successor a sick man so he would not be able to perform and possibly outshine him, has drawn quite a number of Amens from the public with the outrightly cynical insisting [...]
January 24, 2010
Tags: Nigeria, obasanjo, Yaradua Posted in: Reuben Abati
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Yar’Adua: Lost but found
ShareBy Reuben Abati
“HALLELUYAH oh. Somebody shout halle-lu-yah o. Ha-le-ha-le-hale… I praise the Lord o…ha-le. “Somebody, e yin oluwa logo hale…”
“What’s the matter with you?”: You don drink?”
“Yes o. I am drunk with joy. Halle-hale-halle…, “halleluyah, halle…”
“I have been telling you. Take it easy with the bottle. What a man eats is his path to the [...]
January 16, 2010
Tags: Nigeria, Yaradua Posted in: Reuben Abati
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