Tag: Ex-President
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‘More rebels needed to move Nigeria forward’-Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that Nigeria requires honest people as rebels to move her forward. Obasanjo said people who live life of honesty and integrity have to also be rebels, explaining that life of honesty and integrity embolden one to speak truth to power, not caring a hoot whose ox is gored. The…
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Ex-President banned from holding public office
Peru’s Congress on Friday voted to ban former president Martin Vizcarra, implicated in a scandal over Covid-19 vaccinations, from holding public office for 10 years. The president has been accused of being part of a group of 470 people who were secretly vaccinated against the coronavirus before the official start of the country’s immunization campaign.…
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June 12: Family urges FG to recognize Abiola as ex-President
The Abiola family of Abeokuta in Ogun on Friday demanded for an official recognition of late chief M.K.O Abiola as an ex-president of Nigeria. The Head of the Family, Chief Olanrewaju Abiola, made the demand on President Muhammadu Buharui at the family house in Abeokuta. The late M.K.O Abiola was believed to have won the…
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Ex-President Jonathan denies presenting speech on Niger Delta, Biafra agitation in US
Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has disowned an online statement credited to him concerning the relationship between the South East and the people of the Niger Delta, describing it as a fabricated speech. The report claimed that the former President spoke on the position of Niger Delta over agitations for Biafra in a speech…
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Ex-president dies of coronavirus
The Republic of Congo’s former president has died of coronavirus in France, local media reported on Tuesday. Jacques Joachim Yhombi Opango died Monday at the age of 81, according to local daily Journal de Brazza. Opango had been ill before he contracted the virus that has claimed over 37,000 lives worldwide. He was an army…
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Court sentences ex-President to death
A Pakistani special court hearing the high treason case against former president General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday handed the former ruler a death sentence. A three-member bench of the special court headed by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad announced the decision, in a split judgment. The court, in its short order said that…