Apply For the Obasanjo Presidential Youth Mentorship 5.0 For Africans
The Youth Development Centre, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, is inviting applications for the fifth edition of the Obasanjo Presidential Youth Mentorship program for Africans. Read more about Opportunities A centre of focus for youth in the local and global space, the Youth Development Centre is focused on incubating ideas and developing skills aimed at […]
On This Day, Olusegun Obasanjo Was Elected First President Of Fourth Republic
On this day, February 10, 1999, Nigeria returned to democracy after over thirty years of military rule. It might sound surprising that Nigeria, although the giant of Africa and a sixty-two-year-old republic, is still a young democracy. The history of Nigeria was peppered with a series of military coups and military juntas which began […]
ThrowBack Thursday: Revisiting The Oputa Panel
At the onset of the 4th Republic on May 29, 1999, when Olusegun Obasanjo assumed office as the civilian Executive President after more than a decade of military rule, the atmosphere remained tense for the democratic administration. Read more about ThrowBack Thursday Obasanjo began a campaign of reforms shortly after and so the Oputa […]
ThrowBack Thursday: Bola Ige – The Rise of the Cicero of Esa-Oke |1
Besides partaking in the struggles, as one of the founders of Afenifere, to hound late General Sani Abacha into recognizing M.K.O Abiola as substantive president, a lot of the youth only began to know about Chief Bola Ige when he was appointed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Attorney General and Minister of Justice […]
Nigeria In History: Nigeria At 59
It was a bright Saturday morning, at least because of the excitements of Nigerians who, adorned in very colourful attire, throng to the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos and watched with every sense of pride as the Union Jack, the British flag was lowered and replaced with the Nigerian flag. It was Independence Day. It […]
NIGERIA At 59: Top 10 Patriotic Songs Of All Time
From the beginning of the Nigerian union, citizens have expressed their emotions in a variety of ways. Some have taken to writing, others have decided to stage protests, some engaged in riots, wars, while others settled for music. Music is a powerful tool for any kind of communication; communicating with oneself or an external body. […]
ThrowBack Thursday: When Zaki Biam Was Sacked (2001)
All around the world, unfortunate things happen day in day out. But the type witnessed in the Zaki Biam massacre of 2001 is the type rarely perpetrated by a nation’s military forces against the citizens it is meant to protect. The matter of the Odi massacre in November 1999 had not totally died down when […]
Herdsmen Invasion: A Regional Effort to Tackle Insecurity
Barely a month since Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Professor Wole Soyinka agreed on the subject of insecurity in the nation – and particularly the recent kidnappings in the South-West – there has been an unprecedented step up in coordinated effort to get regional leaders and other stakeholders on board to take pragmatic action. Gone are […]
Women You Should Know- Dora Nkem Akunyili
A Leader Par Excellence; a Pharmacist and an Administrator, an Academic and an Educator, a Politician etc. All these fit into the name Dora Nkem Akuniyili. A native of Anambra, born in Makurdi, Benue state, Nigeria on July 14, 1954, to the family of Chief and Mrs Paul Young Edemobi. Born into a childhood filled […]
ThrowBack Thursday: Nigeria’s Debt Relief, 2006
Nigeria, home to one in five Africans and with over 100 million people as of 2006, was once Africa’s most indebted nation. However, on 21st April 2006, as part of a chain of strategies deployed by experts to get some breathing space, Nigeria made a final payment to the 19-nation-strong Paris Club of Creditors which […]
ThrowBack Thursday – COJA 2003: Once Upon Games of Aesthetics
Between the 5th and 17th October, 2003, the Commite’ d’Organisation de Jeux Africaine (COJA), organized the 8th All Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria which will go down as one of the most colourful and expensive hosting event in Nigeria’s history. The administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo was just beginning its 2nd term in office and […]
ThrowBack Thursday: Echoes from FESTAC ‘77
Symbolically, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) began on the 15th January 1977 and ran until the 12th February 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria. The event, which had its first edition in Dakar, Senegal way back in 1966, was a celebration of the values of Afrofuturism. Then president of Senegal, […]
ThrowBack Thursday: How The Bakassi Peninsula was Taken Away
On the 10th of October, 2002, The International Court of Justice (ICJ) finally put to rest the lingering dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula. There had already been pockets of violence between military personnel from Nigeria and Cameroon but which by stroke of fate never escalated into full scale war. In […]
ThrowBack Thursday: The Coming of the 2nd Republic in 1979
After General Yakubu Gowon had failed to renege power to a democratically elected government in 1975 and had instead declared an indefinite suspension of the Democratic plan, a bloodless military coup was organized and he was deposed. General Murtala Mohammed, the new post-coup military Head of State, continued on the quest to bring back a […]
ThrowBack Thursday: May 29, 1999 – A Defining Moment for Nigeria
Up until June 12 this year when President Muhammadu Buhari moved the celebration to June 12, the 29th of May has been Nigeria’s Democracy Day. May 29th was symbolic in that it marked another landmark attempt at returning Nigeria to democracy by the voluntary handover of powers from a military regime to a civilian regime […]
Atiku vs. Osinbajo: Restructuring Revisited
The talk of restructuring has been a longstanding matter of discussion within and outside of political circles for decades. It has been a subject delicately examined at National confabs, conferences, seminars and in public debates. Nevertheless, it always still manages to slip from the hold of the citizenry. Election cycle after election cycle, politicians dig […]