Kudirat Abiola: Women Arise marks 27 years remembrance of late MKO’s wife

Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise, has saluted the efforts of late Kudirat Abiola who fought for the return of democracy to the country. In her tribute on Sunday to the pro-democracy activist who was killed 27 years ago, Okei-Odumakin…

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…

June 12, the mandate – Wole Soyinka

(As prepared for the formal recognition of June 12, 1993, and conferment of national honours on stalwarts of that struggle.)   The annulment of the presidential elections of June 12, 1993 was a negative watershed in Nigerian history. It opened…

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