When I arrived in Lagos in January 1992 after serving three military governments in Akure, Ondo State, politics was in the air. A friend of mine, Senator Mahmud Waziri had …
Decree two was used in 1992 to detain and silence persons for antigovernment activities or statements. In the aftermath of riots in several Nigerian cities in May, four human rights …
In January 1990, the Federal Military Government amended Decree Two, shortening the time a person may be detained without charge from 6 months to 6 weeks; it named the Chief …
On Tuesday June 12, it will be the 25th Anniversary of the Presidential election of 1993. Many claimed it was the freest election held in this country. Sadly it was …
Pope Saint John Paul II (1920-2005) visited Nigeria between February 12 and 17, 1982. He slept in Enugu, Onitsha, Kaduna, Lagos and Ibadan. Everywhere he went, he was accorded tumultuous …
Even with our internal political crisis in January 1966, the Commonwealth selected Nigeria to host a peaceful meeting to resolve the crisis of Southern Rhodesia now Zimbabwe following the threat …
They joined the Nigerian Army the same day in 1960, expectedly with different destinies. I am talking of Colonel Sule Apollo, Brigadier General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, Lt-General Julius Alani Ipoola …
Long before President Muhammadu Buhari joined the Military in 1961 and even long before Dr. Samuel Ioraer Ortom, present Governor of Benue state was born in 1961 or even long …
In the past stories on National Development Plans dominated the headlines especially in the early seventies. Professor Adebayo Adedeji(87) under General Yakubu Gowon was the founder and Chairman of …
Were he to be alive, Alhaji Gidado Idris (GCON) would be 82 next Thursday March 15. He passed on at a private hospital at Aso drive in Abuja on December …