Obasanjo – TheInsight

Jan

07

2023

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By Adaji Daniel

2023: How to read Obasanjo’s momentous letter to youth

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Players in the 2023 political game are agitated at former President Obasanjo’s New Year letter to youths, but multiple data prove that Obasanjo was nationalistic by writing it. By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Key points: Media focus contributed to the misreading of Obasanjo’s letter to youth Youths, who constitute to highest voting population, suffer from bad leadership in Nigeria Buhari, el-Rufai had argued previously that younger persons make better political leaders All over the world, younger persons, in their 30s and 40s, are national leaders Candidates in the 2023 polls are not coming up with new and creative ideas to tackle…

Jan

02

2023

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By Adaji Daniel

My appeal to all Nigerians particularly young Nigerians- Obasanjo

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By OLUSEGUN OBASANJO Dear Compatriots and Friends, Happy New Year! May all our national calamities disappear this year. I am constrained to write this letter to all Nigerians especially young Nigerians, friends of Nigeria globally as well as our development partners because of the gravity, responsibility and implications of the collective decision Nigerians, both young and old, will be making within the next two months. The last seven and a half years have no doubt been eventful and stressful years for many Nigerians. We have moved from frying pan to fire and from mountain top to the valley. Our…

Aug

09

2019

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By Theophilus Abbah

As Audu Ogbeh Takes the Back Seat

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By Eric Teniola When President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, submitted his list of Ministers to the Senate on July 23, the name of Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh (72) was missing. He was one of the few ministers who was not re-nominated by the President. And this led to a conclusion that, perhaps, the public service career of this colourful politician is over and that henceforth he will retire to his village in Efugu-Otukpa with his wife, Justina Obehi and take the back seat with a role as an elder statesman. If that should be, it is not too early to thank…

Jul

13

2019

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By Theophilus Abbah

Vultures of steel: Ajaokuta where corruption is the system

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Theophilus Abbah If corruption was an issue of the presence of individual ‘rotten apples’ in the state, it would suffice to arrest such individuals to cleanse the system. That it is not so proves the story of the steel plant of Ajaokuta, Nigeria, where corruption has been the system for decades. With a new legislature and an impending cabinet, what next for Ajaokuta? Several government changes, commissions of inquiry, senate committees, even arrests, have not been able to stop the bleeding of the tormented Ajaokuta steel manufacturing plant in Kogi State, Nigeria, the second largest in Africa and twelfth largest…

Mar

16

2019

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By Theophilus Abbah

Why Buhari should not impose leaders on NASS

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Each Assembly, from 1999 to 2019, presents a lesson why imposition of leaders on National Assembly always boomerangs In the morning of power struggle for the leadership of the National Assembly, Nigerians heard the loud voices of some elected members of the National Assembly, saying the third arm of government, the Legislature, was waiting on re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari to dictate who should occupy leadership positions in the two Chambers. Such thinking, sounding ordinarily altruistic, may be self-serving and another approach to the power struggle in the National Assembly, as elements who surrender their independence to the Executive may be…

Mar

03

2019

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By Theophilus Abbah

Let’s adopt 6-year single term – Robert Audu

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Chief Robert Audu is a former permanent secretary who served in several ministries, including being the Permanent Secretary (Political) in The Presidency. He was a member of the 2005 and 2014 political conferences. In this interview Chief Audu argues in support of restructuring in aspects of control of mineral resources, police, prisons, term of office for the executive arm of government, etc. Below are excerpts: As a former permanent secretary in several ministries, what, to you, does restructuring the country mean? The restructuring of this country formally began in 1914 after the amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorate by…

Sep

21

2018

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By Theophilus Abbah

$3.3bn Abacha Loot: Between Obasanjo, Jonathan and Buhari

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In the last 20 years, the Federal Government has recovered $3.3 billion from countries where former Head of State, the late General Sani Abacha, stashed the country’s proceeds from oil sales. The recovery hits N1.2 trillion when converted to our local currency, an amount, going by the 2018 budget is enough to fund critical agencies like health, defense and water resources for the year. In the 2018 budget, the sum of N576 billion was allocated to Defense; N356 billion was voted for Health, and N155 billion was earmarked for Water Resources, making a total of N1.087 trillion. These three sectors…

Jun

08

2018

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By Theophilus Abbah

Buhari wants to arrest me – Obasanjo

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