Full text of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day speech

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday addressed Nigerians on the occasion of the Democracy Day. Read full text of the speech by the President below: Fellow Nigerians, 1. The 2020 celebration of Democracy Day marks 21 years of uninterrupted civil administration in…

*Sergeant kills inspector over gate closure in Lagos (Punch) *Alleged Fraud: Court orders interim forfeiture of businessman’s N827m to FG (Vanguard)

Sergeant kills inspector over gate closure in Lagos (Punch) An inspector of police, Adekunle Ilesanmi, has been killed by a sergeant, Okema Azuquo, in the Oke-Odo area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Azuquo was quarrelling with some tenants…

A Democracy Day Primer – Wole Soyinka

Long Read This year’s recall of an uplifting day in the year 1993 comes up against a background of its most shameful disavowal: the 2019 elections – still under judicial contestation – an event that would be more accurately described…

FG declares Wednesday as public holiday to mark Democracy Day (Punch)

The Federal Government on Monday declared Wednesday, June 12, as a public holiday, to commemorate the nation’s National Democracy Day. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Mrs Georgina Ehuriah, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a…

There was a man called MKO Abiola-Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

It’s cool by most Nigerians that June 12 has been given its due as Democracy Day. The current politicians in Nigeria should copy the common touch of Bashorun MKO Abiola, the dogged man who won the June 12, 1993 presidential…

Democracy Day: Did Buhari Deliver A Master Stroke? – Magnus Onyibe.

Just when President Muhamadu Buhari’s electability in the South West of Nigeria was beginning to look weak, (at a time that the enormous influence formerly wielded by his main ally Bola Tinubu is being badly eroded) his landmark decision to…

June 12 tsunami and the ones who won’t forgive Buhari -Garba Shehu

An old Chinese proverb says: Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. This short proverb sums the intensity of attacks against President Muhammadu Buhari, not leaving the ratcheting up of violence in some the states after a period of…

Thank you PMB for re-incarnating June 12- Dupe Onitiri-Abiola

My name is DUPE ONITIRI-ABIOLA (CHIEF MRS.), widow of Late CHIEF MKO ABIOLA, a pro-democracy activist. FIRSTLY, I GIVE ALL GLORY TO THE MOST HIGH GOD ALMIGHTY. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GREAT GOOD PEOPLE OF NIGERIA. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WONDERFUL SPIRIT…

It all started in Lagos (Nation)

Since it crept into the calendar of national holidays, Southwest states, under the progressive umbrella, especially Lagos, have never reckoned with May 29 as the Democracy Day. The ‘real’ Democracy Day is June 12, 1993, when Nigerians shoved aside religion…

Move over OBJ, Buhari is the real Baba – Toni Kan

I was in church yesterday when the man sitting next to me passed me his phone. “Later,” I said. I had come in late and wanted to pay attention to the pastor. But he insisted. “Read joor, shebi you be…

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