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Olusegun Obasanjo is an enigmatic politician Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has built a mosque beside his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta. The former president has already built a 1000 seater church, Chapel of Christ the Glorious King within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL). According Afis Oladosu of the Friday Worship column on Islam in The Guardian of Nigeria, the news was broken by an elder in a mosque where he observed the Jumuat service last Friday in Lagos. “Don’t ever say a man is a disbeliever in Allah. Obasanjo has built a mosque. I attended the opening ceremony together with some Moslem scholars from Ilorin!” The elder said. Afis said the listeners were shocked and wondered why Obasanjo was doing so when he is not a Moslem. “Since when did Obasanjo become a Christian philanthropist?” “What is wrong in the donation of a mosque by Obasanjo to the Moslems? Is this mosque not a Greek’s gift? “ “Did Obasanjo say he has become a Moslem? “ Af...

The Mandate of MKO Abiola By Adeleke O. Adeyemi, with the remarks of Reuben Abati The Mandate: Audio Drama Suffused with score after score of original, lilting music that resonates with its power and purpose The Mandate, Audio Drama tracks along a ponderous part of Nigeria’s story as it totters on a way forward, past a crossroads onto a path leading past her present – into an impending future. It is here presented for education and entertainment in a way that is gratifying to the soul. This is Drama to experience – over and over again! Following in the chequered tradition of the groundbreaking radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds (by American actor and director Orson Welles, written by the British H.G. Wells, a generation earlier) that captured the imagination of a whole nation an eon of a generation ago, another playwright has given us–startling as gripping–another War. It centres on the calling and career of one whose essence has been aptly captured as: …Truly the first national...

Chief James Ibori thinking of how to escape from the Metropolitan Police and the EFCC. Court Restrains EFCC From Arresting Ibori Vanguard (Lagos) NEWS 11 October 2007 Posted to the web 11 October 2007 By Emma Amaize Warri A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Benin has granted an injunction, restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Executive Chairman of the Commission, Attorney-General of the Federation and their agents from arresting or detaining the immediate past governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori; his deputy, Chief Benjamin Elue; and other former and current political office holders in the state in respect of the EFFC's current investigations into the financial transactions and contracts in the state between 1999 and May 2007. The order is to subsist until the determination of the motion on notice brought against them before the court. The Delta State Government had approached the court following receipt of a letter from the EFCC requesting it to turn ...

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