₦airaland Forum

The carton wants to be remembered with Biafra...why not call it nigeria war...zogun

Amotolongbo:
https://leadership.ng/civil-war-was-for-unity-not-hatred-gowon/

Wetin concern brown roof with job loss, they are in govt. waiting for you to come and register your biz, and looking for whom to hail and bow to.

patrickcollins:
There is a bigger problem, glo, Airtel and others especially glo ain't dependable, again there would be massive job losses

lol...Na only brown roof section they always celebrate this kind news....as we no fit do business make every business fail...at least we go dey govt job dey collect crumbles....election, cashout, census cashout, new registration cashout, govt contracts cashout...

RandDigital:
https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/827104/major-south-african-retailer-that-added-over-1600-new-stores-in-4-years/

Move to Labour party for 2027 Governorship...we want to check something...

fergie001:
All members of the State EXCO joined the Governor in moving to the APC, save for one

The 42yo is a former State PDP Publicity Secretary (2016-2020), and later Information Commissioner under former Governor Udom Emmanuel

Abacha vs Tinubu.. the time is coming. Wait till 2026...

TopNotchTrends:
Some students of OAU have been arrested by the DSS After Protesting Against Wike while he was speaking at the school.

The students were protesting against Mike's demolition of homes in Abuja before they were whisked away.

Now is it that Nigerians cannot criticize this Tinubu administration?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIw_WQd2Q28?si=3pLjtLxZAYkRsJml



https://fij.ng/article/two-oau-students-feared-arrested-after-protesting-wikes-visit/

Na statistic we go chop

Slytiger:
Nlfpmod

Becos the belle no be the man own...na just there dem keep based on who get better prospect...

Peakdesign23:
During marriage some people find it very difficult to conceive, during courtship belle fit just enter anytime. Such is life.
Congrats to their bundle of joy.

Surprise you did not mention Peter Obi...

mayor1814:
U sha like exposing tapinaldo. Ok. Congratulations to him and Portugal. And that's where it ends. All time greatest of all time list, Ronaldo will never be number one. All relevant lists will never place him as number one at all.


Football goes beyond goals. Eye test, overall contribution; skills, assists, creativity, MOTM; world cup golden ball winner; world cup trophy; ballon dor; etc all count. The only major thing going for tapinaldo is goals and longevity; nothing more dude... Check some lists here, they see the facts clearly without bias or emotions

APC spotted...good things dey worry their belle..

RightChannel:
Messi and C Ro should give room for upcoming generation to shine!

INEC should conduct a free and fiar election and lets stop all these rhetoric....the only reason fulls talk in this forest is due to INEC kwaruption.

Ijaya123:
The Obidient movement is nothing else but a cult.

My comment on this two years ago.

And Zero8Zero...Now, the West have their own tourist hunters...Renewed hope completed.

YourKarma:
Yarimo heliunes Legendhero, benuejosh
They're taking over yorubaland. Wahala dey o

This is a monumental achievement to be added to the RENEWED HOPE...Mid-term review confirmed. 2027 CARRY DEY GO. T-NEC no waste money for election materials. Obingo, Mikano and the lizard of Ubima...join APC now.

iwaeda:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/06/03/breaking-new-terrorist-group-mahmuda-resumes-attacks-kwara-community-kills-three

To destroy Landmark Hotel and beach...the druggie wants the location...

GIFTEDPLANNERS:
How many km is this. Starting it in Lagos is for a reason best known to them

To AtikuLATED supporters, MAY YOUR FUTURE AND FAMILY ALIGN WITH HIS PLANS FOR NIGERIA.
To ObiDIENT supporters, MAY YOUR FUTURE AND FAMILY REFLECT HIS VISION FOR NIGERIA.
To TinubuLOKAN supperters, MAY YOUR FUTURE AND FAMILY MIRROR HIS AGENDA FOR NIGERIA TILL 2031.

AMIIII, AMEN, YES OOOOO.

These green national colors will be good on T-pain, Wiked, Apkafiofio and kaduna midget.

Ondopress1:
Ilesa Prison Break: Escapee Offers to Surrender If FG Gives N5 Million Bounty to His Mother

One of the escapees from the recent Ilesa prison break, Tobi Akin, has taken to social media to make a startling offer to the Federal Government: pay the N5 million bounty placed on his head to his mother, and he will voluntarily surrender.

Akin, 19 years, from Osun State, made the statement via his official X (formerly Twitter) account, saying:

"You put me for prison because I cashout $20 and you dey use 5 million find me. Give my mama the money, I go turn myself in".

If you don't know how druggies operate, you will fall for this. Sanwo-Olu might be the mole to infiltrate any strong opposition...so the public embarrassment will give Atiku and el-Rufai the fall guy mode jaga jagaban and crew are planning.

NwekeUG:
President Tinubu Snubs Sanwo-Olu While Greeting Other Dignitaries At Inauguration Of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway Phase I


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QbdFF23VFg?si=rieoeDxoYljVvaju

Key word WILL...which will never happen. you can't jump in through the window and start cleaning or painting a house.

zero8zero:
By the time this Govt policies begin to come together, Nigeria will be better for it.

CCTV room is now a digital community...Egungun and express lol...

TimeManager:
7,000 digital villages, connecting rural hospitals, schools and households to free internet access, that's fantastic. God bless Nigeria.


-Kiss the truth!

T-pain both man-made and nature on the prowl.

God1000:
#DWAfrica

Are you insinuating that Perter Obi will be president soon, because the post is meant to compare only Presidents of the forest with the same feathers

Front0lane:
Peter the criminal is leading bro. Abi is Obi no longer a protege of the assasin Abacha or he did not wprk in the port under Abacha is that not where he got thr loot to establish his fraudulent empire ?!

Moody’s has upgraded Nigeria’s credit rating from Caa1 to B3, signalling growing confidence in the economy. Same here abi

IamANigerianMan:
Armnesty international is a criminal organisation mostly use by foreign countries to distablize Africa

Moody’s has upgraded Nigeria’s credit rating from Caa1 to B3, signalling growing confidence in the economy. .... E Tpain you.

zero8zero:
A foreign group that sit in their office without being in the field with the military who are facing the war, wants me to believe their c0ck and bull stories over the credible figures of our gallant military. But watch and see how some unpatriotic elements asslick amnesty international, these elements would quickly condemn amnesty international when they release figures and condemn the genocide of Isreal war crimes in Gaza. But will believe amnesty international against their own country, talking about white slaves mentality.
God bless the Nigerian Military, God bless Nigeria.

Stone villa will not be celebrating this...they are focused on sniffy traffiky powder...J. BAN (OTP)

Dpharmacist:
🚨It's World No Tobacco Day 2025 🚨

🗓️ May 31st is NOT just another day. It’s a global wake-up call. And this year, the message is loud and clear:

Tobacco companies are not selling style. They’re selling addiction.

🎯 What’s Happening?
In 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) is turning the spotlight on the deceptive tactics used by Big Tobacco to hook the next generation. And believe it or not, Nigeria is one of their prime targets.

💡 Here’s How They’re Doing It:

🟡 Fancy, Bright Packaging:
Tobacco products are now dressed up to look like candy bars or energy drinks — sleek, colorful, and dangerously misleading.

🟣 Flavored Tobacco:
Mango, mint, vanilla, bubble gum — no, this isn’t ice cream. These are flavors designed to mask the harshness of tobacco and make smoking feel "cool" to teenagers.

🔵 Social Media Manipulation:
From TikTok to Instagram, influencers (some paid, some unaware) are glamorizing vaping and smoking without ever showing the health consequences.

🤔 Why Should You Care?
Because the youth they’re targeting are your brothers, sisters, classmates, and even your future kids. These companies don’t care about your lungs — they care about your wallet and lifelong dependence.

🚫 This is NOT freedom. It’s manipulation.

🔥 It’s Time to UNMASK the Appeal.

📣 Join the fight. Speak out. Share this message. Talk to a friend who vapes or smokes. Educate your community. Push for stronger laws on advertising and flavored products.

💬 Question for You:
What do YOU think should be done to protect Nigerian youths from this growing health threat? Drop your ideas and let’s get talking 👇👇👇

📢 #WorldNoTobaccoDay2025
📢 #UnmaskTheAppeal
📢 #ProtectOurYouth
📢 #SayNoToBigTobacco

Send your druggie boss to jail...

helinues:
Okay. What's your proffer solution to the insecurity in Nigeria?

May 7, 1998: G-34, a multi-ethnic coalition of eminent Nigerians led by Dr. Alex Ekwueme, former vice president, sends a letter to Abacha, adducing eight grounds on which the latter’s adoption as sole presidential candidate by the five political parties breached all relevant laws. It urges him to decline the purported nomination.

May 13, 1998: Comrade Ola Oni, a legendary radical lecturer-activist, Bola Ige, Lam Adesina and other activists, arrested over the May Day riots in Ibadan, arraigned before the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Iyaganku, Ibadan.

May 18, 1998: Abacha raises objection to the suit filed by Chief Gani Fawehinmi challenging his adoption as the sole presidential flag bearer of the five political parties, at the Federal High Court.

June 1, 1998: Appeal Court declines jurisdiction to adjudicate in the cases brought before it by Dr. Tunji Braithwaite and Alhaji Mohammed Dikko Yusuf to stop Abacha, from contesting in the presidential election.

June 3, 1998: Constitutional Lawyer, Dr. Chimezie Ikeazor (SAN) files a suit at the Court of Appeal, Abuja seeking to invoke legal power to protect the presumed ambition of Abacha, and to the legal propriety of emerging opposers of Abacha’s adoption as sole presidential challenge candidate of the five political parties.

June 8, 1998: Abacha dies, to all appearances of cardiac arrest, in the early hours of the morning.

Chronology of Major Political Events in the Abacha Era (1993-1998)

Enemaku Idachaba

August 1, 1993: A group of thirty senators signs a joint motion asking the government to declare the winner of the June 12 election.

August 4, 1993: Abiola leaves Nigeria unannounced.

August 12, 1993: Government begins clamp down on activists all over the country.
The Abacha Period November 17, 1993:

November 17, 1993: General Abacha takes over power following the ‘resignation’ of Chief Ernest Shonekan. However, this is seen in many quarters as a palace coup by General Abacha (the most senior secretary (minister) in the ING) amidst mixed reactions and feelings.

January7, 1994: Abacha formally moves his administration to Abuja, ostensibly, like Babangida before him, with a view to escaping from the political radicalism and opposition in Lagos and consolidating his power.

April 22, 1994: Federal Government releases its political programme in the aftermath of the controversy generated by Brigadier David Mark’s interview with the Newswatch magazine in which he alleged that the Abacha government has no political programme and plans to stay in power till 1999.

May 15, 1994: National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) is formed to press for the revalidation of the June 12, 1993 presidential election and the reinstallation of all democratic structures.

May 23, 1994: National Constitutional Conference elections begin but are massively boycotted by Nigerians heeding NADECO’s boycott call especially in the South-West.

May 31, 1994: Ibrahim Coomasie, Inspector General of Police, declares NADECO illegal, signaling government’s decision to clamp down on pro-democracy activists.

June 11, 1994: Chief M.K.O Abiola declares himself president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the eve of the first anniversary of June 12 in an attempt to claim his June 12, 1993 presidential mandate at Epetedo, Lagos Island. He goes into hiding after the declaration, for fear of being arrested.

June 23, 1994: The Federal Military Government arrests Chief M.K.O Abiola on charges of treason.

July 5, 1994: National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) begin the longest strike in Nigerian history to protest the annulled presidential elections. The nation is plunged into a monumental fuel crisis, causing untold hardship to citizens.

July 8, 1994: Riots break out in the Southwestern states, especially Lagos, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, as well as Edo State.

August 1, 1994: Abacha meets with the Armed Forces Consultative Assembly to discuss Nigeria’s political problems and their security implications.

August 3, 1994: Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) calls for a general strike in solidarity with the oil workers’ strike.

August 5, 1994: An Abuja High Court presided over by Justice Abdullahi Mustapha grants Abiola a controversial and unsolicited conditional bail.

August 6, 1994: Presiding judge over Abiola’s case withdraws, supposedly to keep his reputation intact and for the sake of justice or judicial integrity.

August 8, 1994: Professor Wole Soyinka, nobel laureate and pro-democracy activist, goes to the Federal High Court in Lagos asking the Court to declare the Abacha government illegal.

August 18, 1994: The crackdown finally begins: the Abacha government responds to the workers’ strike by sacking the Executive Council of NUPENG and PENGASSAN, and NLC, closes down three newspapers: the Punch, Concord group (owned by Abiola) and The Guardian. It announces a partial lifting of the ban on politics, allowing individuals to ‘canvass political ideas’ but not to ‘form political parties for now’.

August 19, 1994: Chief Anthony Enahoro, elder-statesman, who moved the motion for Nigeria’s 348 Enemaku Idachaba independence, General Alani Akinrinade, former Chief of Defence Staff, Chief Cornelius Adebayo and other NADECO officials arrested at Sheraton Hotel and Towers. In Kaduna, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, former Governor of Kaduna State, and others, attending a meeting in his house, arrested and later released.

August 20, 1994: Chief Frank Kokori, General Secretary of NUPENG is arrested.

August 24, 1994: The military government promulgates decrees which put its actions beyond legal challenge in the courts.

August 26, 1994: Government dissolves boards of state-owned corporations and agencies.

August 27, 1994: The military government inaugurates the National Constitutional Conference. A team of American officials led by Rev. Jesse Jackson visits Abuja to discuss the political logjam with Abacha and Abiola.

August 31, 1994: A pan-Yoruba Conference holds at Premier Hotel Ibadan. Though divided, it nevertheless manages to ask Yoruba ministers and other appointees in government to resign.

September 4, 1994: Oil workers call off strike.

September 12, 1994: Olu Onagoruwa, a well-known pro-democracy activist, is sacked as Attorney General and Minister of Justice for disowning eight decrees promulgated by the Government.

September 27, 1994: Government enlarges Provisional Ruling Council (PRC) to 25 and excludes civilian Council members.

October 1, 1994: Federal Government arrests and detains Chief Gani Fawehinmi for launching a political party, the National Conscience Party, in Lagos.

October 5, 1994: Constitutional Conference agrees on rotational presidency between the North and the South.

October 6, 1994: Constitutional Conference okays multiparty system for the Fourth Republic.

November 1994: Professor Soyinka flees into exile for ‘political reasons’, on grounds that his life is being threatened.

November 3, 1994: Olusegun Obasanjo, military head of state(1976-1979), announces the formation of a political organization, the National Unity Organization (NUO).

November 10, 1994: Constitutional Conference okays three vice presidents for Nigeria.

November 16, 1994: Constitutional Conference approves the establishment of a Constitutional Matters Court to deal with constitutional issues and other matters relating to elections.

November 28, 1994: Abacha hosts President Nelson Mandela of South Africa who has repeatedly asked for the release of Abiola from detention.

December 6, 1994: The terminal date of the Abacha government is fixed for January 1, 1996 by the Constitutional Conference. Attempts to reverse the decision were overwhelmingly rejected the following day.

December 17, 1994: Abacha releases Chief Enahoro after four months in detention.

February 28, 1995: Brigadier Lawan Gwadabe, the longest serving governor during the Babangida regime, General Obasanjo (rtd), his former deputy, General Musa Yar’Adua, and others arrested over an alleged coup plot against the Abacha government.

March 10, 1995: Government announces ‘details’ of the failed coup attempt on National television.

May 15, 1995: The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) emerges as a protest movement for the revalidation of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential elections, eventually assuming the unofficial status of an opposition group.

May 31, 1995: Bomb blast at the launching of the Family Support Programme (FSP) at the Ilorin Stadium kills two. This causes a lot of anxiety and insecurity throughout the country.

June 27, 1995: The Constitutional Conference presents final report; recommends multiparty system, rotational presidency, rejects the 1991 census and resolves that the military should hand over on January 1, 1996.

June 30, 1995: A military tribunal under the chairmanship of Major General Aziza pronounces judgement on the March 10, 1995 coup plotters.

October 1, 1995: Government shows video clips of alleged coup plotters to a limited audience of traditional rulers from across the country.

October 31, 1995: A Special Military Court sentences Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists to death.

November 10, 1995: Provisional Ruling Council (PRC) confirms sentence and proceeds to hang Saro-Wiwa and eight others. The Common Wealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) would immediately suspend Nigeria from the body until reasonable progress towards democracy is made.

December 12, 1995: Government inaugurates a new eight-member National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON).

December 13, 1995: Government sets up a Transition Implementation Committee (TIC) to supervise the transition-to-civil rule process.

December 28, 1995: Inauguration by Abacha of a National Reconciliation Committee (NARECO) headed by Chief Alex Akinyele a former Information minister.

January 1, 1996: Government frees four political detainees including former leader of NUPENG Wariebe Agamene.

January 18, 1996: Bomb blast at Durba Hotel Kaduna kills one, and injures another.

January 19, 1996: Bomb explodes at Malam Aminu Kano Airport, Kano.

February 2, 1996: Alex Ibru, publisher of The Guardian titles and Abacha’s first Minister of Internal Affairs is shot and wounded by gunmen suspected to be hired assassins.

February 3, 1996: Bomb explodes at the main Police station in Zaria.

March 16 – 25, 1996: Local government election holding in phases, begins.

April 13, 1996: Bomb explosions at Ikeja Military Cantonment; one person killed and two injured.

April 20, 1996: Government deposes Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, the 18th Sultan of Sokoto on alleged grounds of insubordination and poor leadership and replaces him with Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido.

April 25, 1996: Bomb explosion occurs at the Ikeja Air force base, injuring two.

June 4, 1996: Alhaja Kudirat Abiola senior wife to the president-elect and a fierce fighter for the validation of the mandate, is murdered by unknown assassins in Lagos.

August 6, 1996: Presiding judge over Abiola’s case withdraws, supposedly to keep his reputation intact and for the sake of justice or judicial integrity.

September 30, 1996: NECON registers five political parties. These are: Committee for National Consensus (CNC), United Nigeria People’s Convention (UNPC), National Centre Party of Nigeria (NCPN), Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN), and Grassroots Democratic Movement (GDM).

October 1, 1996: Government announces the creation of six states. This brings the total to thirty-six. Additional local government areas are to be announced later.

November 14, 1996: NECON releases very stiff guidelines for party registration. Some describe the parties that are registered as ‘Abacha parties’ – perhaps because political formations of only non acolytes and sympathizers are recognized.

November 14, 1996: Car bomb explosion at Murtala Mohammed International Airport kills 3 persons including the Chief Security Officer of the Federal Airport Authority (FAA), Dr. Shola Omasola.

November 27, 1996: Government inaugurates a 172- member Vision 2010 committee, a product of the September 1996 Nigerian Economic Summit III in Abuja, which envisages economic prosperity for the country by the year 2010.

December 16, 1996: Col. Marwa, Lagos State Administrator escapes death from a bomb explosion that apparently targets his convoy; three injured.

December 18, 1996: Bomb explodes at Lagos State Secretariat, hits Lagos State Transport Corporation bus, critically injuring two.

January 7, 1997: Bomb explodes at Lagos mainland, kills two soldiers, injures many.

February 19, 1997: Registration of voters commences with apparently very low turn out.

March 12, 1997: Government charges Chief Enahoro, Chief Falae, Prof. Soyinka, General Akinrinade and others with treason.

March 15, 1997: Election of Local Government chairmen holds on party basis.

March 16, 1997: Government arrests Chief Don Etiebet, former petroleum minister and chieftain of CNC, in connection with the local government elections.

March 17, 1997: Warri indigenes riot over local election results.

March 25, 1997: Lagos State obas and leading chiefs, rather infamously, declare support for Abacha government at a public rally.

May 7, 1997: Bomb explosion kills one woman and injures two in Lagos.

May 12, 1997: Bomb explosion hits police truck, injures two soldiers and a policeman in Ibadan.

July 2, 1997: Transition Implementation Committee (TIC) announces new polls dates: National Assembly, April 25, 1998; Governorship and Presidential elections, August 1, 1998.

September 3, 1997: Lt. Col. M. Bawa, Military Administrator of Ekiti State escapes bomb blast.

September 25, 1997: Bomb explosion rocks the country home of Akinyele, NARECO, in Ondo, Ondo State.

November 23, 1997: Government adopts the Vision 2010 Committee’s Report.

December 6, 1997: Nigerians vote for members of the Houses of Assembly.

December 12, 1997: Government announces a coup plot involving Generals Oladipo Diya Abacha’s deputy; Adisa and Olanrewaju former ministers of Works/Housing and Communications respectively and an array of both military and civilian personnel.

March 3-4, 1998: A million-man march organized by Daniel Kanu in support of Abacha’s transmutation plan to become civilian president in October, 1998 holds in Abuja.

April 15, 1998: Chief Lamidi Adedibu, popularly regarded as the ‘strongman’ of Ibadan politics organizes a pro-Abacha rally in Ibadan. The rally is countered by United Action for Democracy (UAD); five vehicles are razed and three persons killed in the confrontation.

April 16-20, 1998: All but one of the five registered parties adopt Abacha as consensus candidate for the presidential elections.

April 22, 1998: Bomb explosion at Evans Square, Ebutte-Metta in Lagos injures many.

April 23, 1998: Bomb explosion kills five in Sabo area in Ile-Ife.

April 25, 1998: Elections into the National Assembly hold.

April 28, 1998: A special military tribunal headed by Major General Victor Malu, tries and finds some alleged coup plotters guilty of treason and conspiracy. Generals Diya, Adisa and Olanrewaju, and four others are sentenced to death; while others receive various jail terms.

May 1, 1998: United Action for Democracy (UAD) organizes a public protest against the adoption of Abacha as consensus presidential candidate by the parties; protesting youths take to the sheets, attacking the homes of Abacha’s leading supporters in the South West, (the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Azeez Arisekola Alao and Adedibu). Seven die.

May 5, 1998: The European Union officially declares Nigeria’s transition to civil rule programme a failure.

May 7, 1998: Oyo State Administrator, Colonel Ahmed Usman, says all suspects arrested in connection with the May Day 1998 violent protest in Ibadan are to be treated as ‘prisoners of war’ (POWs).

May 7, 1998: G-34, a multi-ethnic coalition of eminent Nigerians led by Dr. Alex Ekwueme, former vice president, sends a letter to Abacha, adducing eight grounds on which the latter’s adoption as sole presidential candidate by the five political parties breached all relevant laws. It urges him to decline the purported nomination.

May 13, 1998: Comrade Ola Oni, a legendary radical lecturer-activist, Bola Ige, Lam Adesina and other activists, arrested over the May Day riots in Ibadan, arraigned before the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Iyaganku, Ibadan.

May 18, 1998: Abacha raises objection to the suit filed by Chief Gani Fawehinmi challenging his adoption as the sole presidential flag bearer of the five political parties, at the Federal High Court.

June 1, 1998: Appeal Court declines jurisdiction to adjudicate in the cases brought before it by Dr. Tunji Braithwaite and Alhaji Mohammed Dikko Yusuf to stop Abacha, from contesting in the presidential election.

June 3, 1998: Constitutional Lawyer, Dr. Chimezie Ikeazor (SAN) files a suit at the Court of Appeal, Abuja seeking to invoke legal power to protect the presumed ambition of Abacha, and to the legal propriety of emerging opposers of Abacha’s adoption as sole presidential challenge candidate of the five political parties.

June 8, 1998: Abacha dies, to all appearances of cardiac arrest, in the early hours of the morning.

June 8, 1998: General Abdulsalami Abubakar emerges as the country’s new head of state.

June 9, 1998: Abubakar announces that the socio-political programme of the Abacha Administration will be faithfully pursued in order to transfer power to a democratic government on October 1, 1998; declares 30-day national mourning for the late leader.

June 15, 1998: Abubakar orders the release of some high profile political detainees: Obasanjo; Dasuki, Bola Ige, Beko Ransome Kuti, Chris Anyanwu, Frank Ovie-Kokori, as well as journalists and pro-democracy activists.

June 19, 1998: Government sends delegations comprising of all the military service chiefs to the geo-political zones for the purpose of having a meaningful dialogue with various interest groups on how to resolve the country’s festering political impasse.

June 30, 1998: Government raises a panel to study and aggregate the views of various interest groups sounded out during the nationwide consultation.

July 2, 1998: Kofi Annan, the UN scribe, on a visit to Abuja reports that Abiola longs for freedom and may have dumped his mandate.

July 7, 1998: Chief M.K.O. Abiola dies ‘apparently of cardiac arrest’ after taking ill during a meeting which Nigerian and United States officials had with him. Complicity of the two governments is alleged by civil society groups.

July 8-9, 1998: Widespread highway riots break out in response to the news of Abiola’s death; curfew imposed in Ogun State, Abiola’s home state.

July 9, 1998: PRC commutes death sentences passed on Diya, Olanrewaju and Adisa over the alleged coup plot of December 1997 to jail terms.

July 11, 1998: Dr. James Young (a cardiac pathologist) reaffirms that Abiola died of natural causes, of long standing disease of the heart, of a type and severity that can cause unexpected death.

July 20, 1998: Abubakar unveils his political transition programme, declares May 29, 1999 as handover date, cancels all elections, dissolves NECON and the five political parties, frees all detainees, drops charges against exiles, and makes commitment to respect human rights.

July 25, 1998: Babangida admits, in a New York Times interview that the annulment of the June 12, 1993 elections was wrong.

August 3, 1998: A Pan-Yoruba conference holds at the Premier Hotel Ibadan; calls for the restructuring of the Nigerian federation and the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) to promote hue federalism. It also affirms the right to self-determination, saying that people prefer to be ruled only by leaders of their choice, freely chosen in free and fair polls based on universal adult suffrage. Finally, it enjoins all Yoruba to participate in the Abubakar transition programme.

August 11, 1998: Abubakar inaugurates a 14-member Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headed by Justice Ephraim Akpata (rtd) to evolve fresh electoral guidelines and a schedule for party registration and elections within two weeks.

August 11, 1998: Government abrogates Decrees 9 and 10 of 1994 which outlaw the executive councils of the NLC, NUPENG and PENGASSAN.

On the spate of bomb blasts or explosions witnessed during the Abacha years, in Nigeria, such terrorist bombings heightened insecurity in the country. The police often insisted that most of them (the victims) were NADECO agents. Cases of hired killings often with a political undertone, were also on the rise in Nigeria during this period. Often the killers (assassins) or the brains behind such killings were not found by the police.

The political scene witnessed confusing signals and frustrating moments, for politicians and the civil society. Other issues included, a bad human rights record, a regime whose image was dented, and whose sincerity to democratize was doubted.

Enemaku Idachaba

Browse the book

But na the no 1 man start am with druggie and Chicago certificate..lol. butt ban again

Atinuke12267:
The NIS just saved us from another international embarrassment.

He would have crossed the border to continue with his criminal activities abroad.

Nigerians are seen worldwide as ‘criminals’ now

Una go ban tire...anything against APC - Ban. This is an APC news letter, just Sahara...Ban this one...huuu