The 2021 Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series will feature eight panellists to engage the theme – ‘Remaking Nigeria: Towards a secure and viable union’ on Tuesday, July 13 at NECA Hall, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, by 1 pm (WAT), with…
Democracy Day 2021: NTA, Channels TV to air democracy and national unity documentary
In commemoration of Democracy Day, June 12, 2021, a one hour documentary titled “Nigeria: Consolidating Democracy and National Unity,” will debut simultaneously on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Channels TV networks this Saturday at 8:00-9:00 pm. According to a…
Funmi Iyanda hosts El-Rufai, Hafsat Abiola on Public Eye Live
Kaduna State Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai will on Friday, June 12 be a guest of Funmi Iyanda on the eighth edition of Public Eye Live under the theme of Governance and Democracy. It will commemorate Nigeria’s Democracy Day. Speaking ahead…
A toast to women of June 12 on Democracy Day-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It’s indeed remarkable that June 12 has at last been declared Democracy Day. The epochal struggle for the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria was not entirely a male affair as some chauvinistic commentators would have us believe. Bashorun MKO Abiola…
My dad’s autopsy inconclusive, says MKO Abiola’s daughter (Punch)
Hafsat Abiola-Costello, a daughter of the winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, has said the autopsy conducted to unravel the circumstances surrounding her father’s death is inconclusive. Abiola-Costello said though the report was…
