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Olúségun Obásanjó’s mother told him at the very beginning that if pounded yam is not much, it must be made hard and tough (iyán tí kò pò, ó gbodò yi).

General Olusegun Obasanjo who has been a long-standing Chief of Owu Kingdom in Ogun State needs no introduction. He is too well known to us here to be introduced.

•ON SCHOOLCHILDREN KIDNAPPING: You don’t rule out ransom payment without providing alternative to rescuing victims •ON 2023: Let power shift end but Igbo must be President first By Kennedy Mbele In this concluding part of his interview with Sunday Vanguard, Brigadier General Godwin Alabi-Isama, Staff Officer at the Third Marine Commando during the Nigerian Civil War, speaks on how Nigeria can be at peace with the Fulani amid the insecurity crisis facing the nation among other issues in the polity. Excerpts: I am talking about the issues in the North-East, North-West, South-East and what...

Translate Home » News » INSECURITY: Boko Haram war, bandit attacks can end in 15 days if… — Gen Alabi-Isama, Civil War Veteran INSECURITY: Boko Haram war, bandit attacks can end in 15 days if… — Gen Alabi-Isama, Civil War Veteran On • ‘We would have been fighting another Civil War were we to be under military rule’ • On 1966 coup: Nzeogwu putsch not an Igbo takeover bid • ‘I am still researching into Gen Adekunle’s problem with Gowon govt’ By Wale Akinola, Charles Kumolu and Kennedy Mbele FIFTY-one years after the end of the Nigerian Civil War...

Editorial He is a soldier’s soldier. Alabi Isama evinced the physical attributes of a warrior as a young man. He would say he also had the idealism of youth. After he qualified to serve in the Nigerian Army, it was as though the quiet of a society fell into a quicksand of fear and suspicion. Those were not diets for a good society. They, however, nourished the brawn and mind of a warrior. Isama was such a man. Not just in the Nigerian society but on the continent of Africa did we see people on the hunt of their neighbours – ethnic neighbours, that is. So, Isama, in the course of his stori...