Tunde Elegbede News Today

It was 25 years ago; Saturday, October 10, 1998 to be precise. We were all inside the living room of the Yaba, Lagos modest home of Frank Ovie-Kokori. We

The likes of Kokori should remind Nigerians that the civil rule they enjoy today was not handed on a silver platter.

The country was as well recuperating from the unexpected death of Chief MKO Abiola, winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.

When some of us agonize on how little difference exists between then and now, few know the depth of our feeling of déjà vu and the privations we also suffered. I had resigned from the Tribune to go join efforts with Segun Olatunji, Adeolu Akande, Wale Adebanwi and Bode Opeseitan in a newly founded newspaper named Omega Weekly. We were unpretentiously adversarial against the military government.

I admire and respect the energy and passion of the Obidients and like I said in an earlier write-up titled "Who Are These Obidients?", I believe that they

When Obi was still at University Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in the trenches, fighting military Governments, leading NADECO

When Obi was still in the University, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in the trenches, fighting military governments, leading NADECO.