RABBI Yochanan ben Zakkai was a Jew of unusual intelligence who out reasoned Roman General Vespasian whose order it was to lay waste Jerusalem in 69 AD. Unable to unite the feuding Jews of his days against a common foe he decided to go it...

BEING from the creeks of Bayelsa and used to water, little Priye was delighted as he took his WAEC results to his uncle. The old man looked at the results and smiled. Had your parents been alive, they would have been proud of you. Now, I think you...

In recent times, the country has witnessed a raft of international competitions, where participants from all over converge in Nigeria to vie for honours and the cash that goes with them. Most times, such events, which cost thousands of dollars to...

Language on parade

MY first encounter with that word was in the title of Paulo Freire’s very popular book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, long, long ago.  Content with its well-written review, I did bother then to find and read the compact red...

AS has been the case since annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election, the civil society in Edo State has lined-up a series of activities to mark the day that changed Nigeria’s democratic process. However, curiously, there has never...

To the former National Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy, Malam Mamman Yusufu, annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election represents just one of the episodic events in the annals of the country’s history. Speaking to KAMAL TAYO OROPO...

THOUGH Kwara is considered part of North Central geo political zone, majority of the people in the state have never pretended about their South West roots. Culturally and linguistically, majority of them share same traits with the Yoruba of South...

Chief Ayo Opadokun, former Secretary General of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) and promoter of Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reforms (CODER), tells SEYE OLUMIDE that Nigeria has not learned anything from June 12, 1993 election...

ON the march again, On the march again, waiting for Mr. President, MKO is our man o, was the theme song during Chief MKO Abiola’s presidential campaign.

The Guardian visited the sprawling resident and headquarters of Hope ‘93 at Abiola...

Dr. Ore Falomo, personal physician to the late Moshood Abiola, speaks with GBENGA SALAU on the philosophies of June 12 and if there had been efforts to sustain them 20 years after.

No doubts, the mass movement that came with June 12 must be a...

• If People Want Freedom, They Should Fight For It

Senator Louisa Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele, former Lagos State Deputy governor and NADECO chieftain, was one of the women in the frontline for restoration of June 12 mandate. She told KAMAL TAYO...

Chief Mubashiru Abiola is the immediate younger brother to M.K.O Abiola. He told GBENGA AKINFENWA some hard facts regarding  the June 12 debacle.

DO you think Nigerians have shown enough appreciation of the immense sacrifice your...

WEDNESDAY this week the 20th edition of June 12 will be commemorated.  June 12 was hope. It was everybody’s dream. Everybody believed that the outcome of its interaction within the political space would usher in a new Nigeria. Indeed, it...

•  Nigeria Is Being Serially, Viciously And Mercilessly Raped By Our Leaders

Mr. David Okoror, criminologist and Director General of the African Diaspora Initiative (ADI), spoke on the security situation in the North, which led to the...