Two children of the late MKO Abiola, self-acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, Kassim, and Aliyu Abiola have instituted a N100 million suit against the police. The duo sued the Lagos state commissioner of police over their arrest; and also detention in connection with a robbery incident at their family house….
Today is June 12th, our nation’s Democracy Day and I have some home truths to tell. The struggle for June 12th was indeed a noble, worthy, cataclysmic and monumental one. It was also something of a nightmare which littered our fields with many corpses and soaked the very foundation of our nation with blood, sweat…
The immediate former Governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose has commended President Mohammadu Buhari for honouring late MKO Abiola with June 12 celebration as Democracy Day. Former Gov. Fayose stated this on his Twitter page on Thursday. According to him, honouring MKO Abiola by the president is to Obasanjo’s shame. He said: “honouring MKO…
President Mohammadu Buhari Wednesday renamed the Abuja National Stadium after acclaimed winner of 1993 General Election Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola. The honour is coming 26 years after that historical election adjudged to be the fairest since the country’s independent in 1960. The President had earlier signed into the law the recognition of June 12 as…
Former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, on Wednesday recalled some of the ugly memories he has about the June 12 struggle. He said the late Moshood Abiola, by his struggle and death in the course of holding on to his mandate, paid the price of the 20-year-uninterrupted democracy Nigeria enjoys today. Osoba spoke…
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has signed June 12 bill into law. Presidential aide on National Assembly matters, Senator Ita Enang informed the state house correspondents that with the assent to the amendment, May 29 is no more a public holiday. Buhari assented to the Public Holiday Amendment Act, declaring…
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