Senator Adams Oshiomhole has strongly objected to any posthumous recognition for the late Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the former chairman of the defunct National Electoral Commission (NEC)....
Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 presidential elections, Omoleye Sowore, has accused ex-military President, General Ibrahim...
Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has revealed his intention to sue former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), over what he described as...
Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of the late Chief MKO Abiola, has dismissed former military ruler Gen. Ibrahim Babangida’s admission that her father won the June 12, 1993,...
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has called for recognition of true winners of past nullified elections in the...
One of the highlights of the recent celebrations of Democracy Day, on June 12, was the series of anniversary lectures organized to mark 25 years of...
On the occasion of the 2024 Democracy Day, a group of protesters gathered at the Ikeja Underbridge in Lagos, demanding economic reforms and better living conditions....
The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Monday, reopened the debate on the restructuring of the country. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard...
A former Minister of Information and National Orientation, Prof. Jerry Gana, has lamented the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election which many Nigerians believe...
Niger State Governor, Umaru Bago has pardoned 80 inmates in various correctional centres in the state to mark the 2023 June 12 Democracy Day. Governor Bago also approved...
Yesterday, Nigeria declared a public holiday, and marked the 29th anniversary of June 12, 1993, the day Nigerians trooped out en masse to elect Bashorun Moshood...
The former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retd), insisted on Monday that the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election was in the best...
The police command in Ogun State has stated that no protester nor hoodlum was arrested during Democracy Day celebration in the state. ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the...
Nigerians on Saturday bombarded social media platforms with hashtags demanding true democracy and calling for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari. In support of the Democracy...
There was drama on Saturday when some protesters who identified themselves as supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari clashed at Unity Fountain, Abuja, over issues relating to...
Against the backdrop of reported repression and heavy-handedness by police operatives on June 12 protesters across the country, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned...
In order to forestall any breakdown in law and order, police operatives shot teargas as protesters have arrived at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, Lagos...
Operatives of the Nigeria Police on Saturday shot teargas canisters at June 12 protesters in Gudu area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The protesters who...
President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed the rationale behind the shift in the date of Democracy Day from May 29 to June 12. Buhari made this disclosure...
The Lagos State Police Command on Friday urged the people of the state to disregard the sit-at-home directive issued by certain groups ahead of the country’s...
RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore has slammed the decision of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS to suspend its planned protest on June 12. Ripples Nigeria...
Ahead of a planned June 12 nationwide protests, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered all Zonal Assistant Inspectors General of Police, Commissioners...
A human rights group, Concerned Nigerians (CN), has called on Nigerians in the diaspora, especially those residing in London, United Kingdom, to come out en masse...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the President Muhammadu Buhari Democracy Day address as a huge and unpardonable slap on the face of Nigeria’s democratic...
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Joe Igbokwe, on Friday urged the Federal Government to compensate the family of the late business mogul, Chief...
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams has said that democracy in Nigeria was yet to measure up to the expectations of the people. According to...
In a bid to rest the ghost of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari declared June 12, Democracy Day. The then Military...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday address the nation in commemoration of this year’s Democracy Day. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday accused the current administration of eroding all the virtues that June 12 symbolised in the life of the nation....
Lagos chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Commodore Bode George, as a liar arising from a statement...
Frank Ovie Kokori has suffered, really suffered! Physically. Psychologically. Politically. Professionally. This diminutive labour leader has passed through “hell.” Today, he spends his life savings nursing...
A former minister for aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has berated Babagana Kingibe following his statement which fingered former president Olusegun Obasanjo as the architect of June 12...
Following a comment that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is imbalanced in terms of appointment, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has carpeted former President Olusegun Obasanjo that his...
Former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, and former senator, Shehu Sani have urged Nigerians to speak against bad government, especially as the citizens are daily...
The national president of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Shetima Yerima, has said President Muhammadu Buhari has preference for the Southwest region compared to other regions...
Former Ogun State governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has said President Muhammadu Buhari has surpassed Nigerian presidents that ruled between 1999 till present. Osoba who spoke in...
Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has said that declaring June 12 as Democracy...
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has expressed appreciation over President Muhammadu Buhari’s courage to declare June 12 authentic Democracy Day. He however said that the...
As part of activities to mark this year’s Democracy Day, June 12, the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde has granted amnesty to 35 lucky prisoners...
All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday appraised Nigeria’s democratic evolution, saying as important as it is, May 29 does not carry the...
The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, June 12 as Public Holiday to commemorate the nation’s Democracy Day. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Barr. Georgina Ekeoma Ehuriah,...
Nigerian Government on Monday revealed programmes for the first Democracy Day to be celebrated on June 12. This comes as it announced that there will still...
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday passed the Public Holiday Act Amendment Bill which recognises June 12 as the country’s new Democracy Day. The bill, which has...
Nigeria’s lower federal legislative chamber, the House of Representatives on Thursday approved June 12 as a day to be marked as Democracy Day in the country....
Senate President Bukola Saraki has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against heeding the advice of those he branded as anti-democratic elements who are putting pressure on him...
A renowned professor of International Law and jurisprudence, Akin Oyebode, yesterday took a swipe at the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the continued killings in...
Foremost lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) has declared as illegal, President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to declare June 12 as Democracy Day. The former president of Nigeria Bar...
Olisa Agbakoba, rights lawyer and former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says MKO Abiola’s failure to become president of the country was due to...
Prof Ben Nwabueze (SAN) has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s June 12 declaration and award conferment. In a statement he personally signed, Nwabueze described the declaration as...
The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) has described President Muhammadu Buhari as the “father of Nigeria’s modern democracy” for his declaration of June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy...
