Abiola did something unusual. He presented before Nigerians, a Muslim-Muslim ticket. His running mate was Baba Gana Kingibe, another Muslim, a Northerner.
Sowore, who earlier kicked against the lopsided sitting arrangement at the venue of the National Peace Committee meeting with presidential candidates in Abuja, told the former Head of State that he had political disagreements with all the military officers who contributed to the annulment of the historical June 12, 1993, presidential election.
But more than that, W.S. as fondly known in literary circles, is identified around the world as the recusant specialist who refused to submit to madmen that have run and ruined Nigeria since independence in 1960.
From Gary, Indiana to Abuja, Nigeria via a stopover in Chicago. Here is how the bagman for a 1990's Chicago drug ring has become a frontrunner for Nigeria's most powerful office. And then some.
On 5 June 2022, Fulani Islamic jihadist terrorists attacked St Francis Roman Catholic Church in Owo, and killed over 80 innocent, unarmed worshippers, including children.
We Yoruba believe that we are unique people of great intellect with which we could negotiate with anybody on anything, and successfully get ourselves out of any difficulties.
The global and regional security implications of allowing the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) to succeed in establishing the Islamic Caliphate, which ISIS had failed to do in the Levant, can only be imagined.
There is a tendency for perpetrators to underestimate the harm that they cause or how beneficial an unfair system was to them. There is no aspect of human history where this is clearer than the modern European perspective on colonialism.
The idea of a Yoruba homeland is rooted in antiquity. The Yoruba Diaspora have maintained, and never broke, ties to their historic homeland since time immemorial.
George Goldie is the brain behind the creation of the place Nigeria. He was present at the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference meetings where white Europeans not only redrew the map of Africa but gave Africans a new identity.