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Fashola at 57: My journey to Lagos governorship
The minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola explains in this interview how he first met his mentor, Asiwaju Bola…
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Throwback: Why I Dumped Abiola- Baba Gana Kingibe
Today is 12 June. The subject that has resurfaced in the country, Covid -19 notwithstanding, is the annulled 12 June, 1993…
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Abiola’s Last Interview With TheNEWS: “Why IBB Left Abacha Behind”
Ademola Adegbamigbe By the time the late Chief MKO Abiola was fighting to retrieve his electoral mandate, the annulled 12 June, 1993…
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Umaru Yar’Adua’s 10th Memorial: Politics The Cabal Played With His Health
On Tuesday, 5 May, 2020, Nigerians remembered former President Umaru Yar’Adua, who died 10 years ago (5 May, 2010). Though a man…
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Flashback/My Coup Story: Diya Speaks from Jail
The story you are about to read is to commemorate the World Press Freedom Day. It is about how Editors of TheNEWS…
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From the Archives: Why I Dumped Abiola- Baba Gana Kingibe
Babagana Kingibe jumped ship after the June 12, 1993 election was annulled and even went ahead to work with the Sani Abacha…
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Throwback: Fela’s prison interview with TheNEWS in 1993
The late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the Afrobeat legend, lived from 15 October 1938 to 2 August 1997. Fela, throughout his career,…
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Flashback: Day Biafrans shot Obasanjo in the buttocks- Gen Alabi Isama
General Alabi Isama was the Chief of Staff in the 3rd Marine Commando during the civil war between 1967 and 1970. He…
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From the Archives: How to Move Nigeria Forward – General Alani Akinrinade
General Alani Ipoola Akinrinade is 80 years old. Yet, he does not look it. The civil war hero, pro-democracy activist who…
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Tinubu’s 68th birthday: What he told TheNEWS about his rugged start in life
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is 68 years old today, Sunday, 29 March. He was born on that day and month in…
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