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MIXED reactions have continued to trail the surprise visit by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar to his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at his Abeokuta home, Monday.
The former Vice-President, with Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun State, who President Olusegun Obasanjo described as the “facilitator” held a closed door meeting with the former President which lasted about [...]

I personally think private education is better than a public one, in fact it is one of my dreams to purchase my Secondary School from the FGN.
Either way, point is while these guys are doing good for their students, where did they get the money to set up the schools in the first place?
Abubakar, Babangida [...]

This is where Olusegun Obasanjo is at his best, negotiating an end to conflicts plaguing the African continent.
If only he had put this kind of even-handed, impartial effort to governing Nigeria, his legacy as a civilian President would have been a completely different one.
Either way, Kudos to President Obasanjo for successfully brokering a cease-fire.
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The National Chairman of the Democratic Peoples Alliance ( DPA) and former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, at the weekend said the recession currently being experienced in the stock exchange especially as they concern bank stocks was caused by the arbitrary consolidation of financial institutions introduced by former President, Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime.
In the [...]

KINSMEN of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has described him him as the “father of Nigeria ,” saying he did his best by serving the country meritoriously for eight years.
The Chief of Owu kingdom, Oba Adegboyega Dosunmu, speaking at the 9th Owu Day celebrations in Abeokuta , said “Obasanjo was called to save Nigeria and he [...]

A renowned law and human rights scholar, Dr. Chidi Odinkalu, yesterday described the Obasanjo Presidential Library as unlawful and illegal, going by a section of the Official Secret Act.
Speaking as a guest lecturer at the first annual law and social development lecture with the theme: “FoI Bill: Perspective, Prospects and Challenges,” organised by the law [...]

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo and 31 ex-governors, who were investigated by her predecessor, have no prima facie case against them.
She also said the commission has not received any petition against the former President.
But the former President also yesterday rejected the [...]

The Action Congress (AC) has called on President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to direct the anti-corruption agencies, especially the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to probe the role played by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the alleged frittering away of $16 billion in the power sector between 1999 and 2007.
The party hinged its call [...]

Sunday, October 05, 2008
FOI Bill And The Elusive Open Society
By Reuben Abati
One of the major highlights of the October 1 Independence Anniversary this year (apart from the stylish but insincere independence day speech by the President, loaded with false claims as it was, and the praise-worthy renaming of streets [...]

The Limits of Political Game
By Kunle Sanyaolu
Sunday, October 05, 2008
WITH the level of tension and acrimony generated by the last general elections (2007) that produced President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, one would not have imagined the possibility of a rapport between the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP). The [...]