Tag: Obasanjo
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What Boko Haram Founders Told Me About Insurgency – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has revealed what the founders of Boko Haram in the North-East told him about insurgency in Nigeria. Obasanjo said the founders of the terrorist group told him that poverty and unemployment drove them into the insurgency. The former president made this revelation at the launch of a book titled, ‘Pillars of…
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2023: Teacher Obasanjo wants to teach us nonsense – By Ismail Omipidan
2023: Teacher Obasanjo wants to teach us nonsense By Ismail Omipidan “These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people and the process cannot be considered to have been credible.” The above quote from Chief EU observer Max van den Berg, in 2007, summed up the outcome of the…
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Calls for disintegration, insensitive to plight of minority groups – Ex-President Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday described calls for the disintegration of Nigeria as unmindful and insensitive to the plight of the minority groups in the country. He spoke in Abeokuta while playing host to the Tiv Professional Group (TPG) from Benue State. Chief Obasanjo recalled a discussion between him and “a military friend” who,…