You’re a failure*Akinjide sums up the Obasanjo years: •Says OBJ is neither leader nor statesman…But no regrets saving him from

By Linus Obogo
Saturday, September 15, 2007
In an irreconcilable opposite to Williams Shakespeare’s submission in Julius Ceasar that the evils that men do live after them, while their good deeds are often interred with their bones, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s outlawry, while in office has continued to resonate in his life time, since his grudging and resentful exit from power.
In what seems a postscript of Obasanjo’s eight years in office, now regarded as a tale of unmitigated disaster with unwholesome consequences, the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), has declared the ex-president as a monumental failure and wished that Nigeria never experiences characters like Obasanjo as leaders again.

Wicked! How El-rufai Caused Ekwensi To Die Heartbroken - Politics

BY LINUS OBOGO


Even as he bade his long goodbye at age 86, January 4th, frontline author, late Chief Cyprian Ekewnsi probably did so with a heavy heart, despite his literary accomplishment. A sad victim of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s hysterical land revocation drive, while as FCT minister, the late literary icon, before he breathed his last on November 4th, 2007, literally went down on his knees severally, not minding the age gap, before the former minister, begging to be allowed his only property in the federal capital territory, an undeveloped plot of land, which ownership El-Rufai revoked in 2006, in a manner that was not only befuddling, but challenged logic and common sense.
Acquired in 1992, the plot of land (Re: Certificate of Occupancy NO. FCT/ABU/AN: 2233), which is located at 272 Utako District, Cadastral Zone B5, according to available documents Saturday Sun chanced into, was paid for after due diligence, when the late foremost writer was federal director of Information and later, chairman of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria.

PITY: Quit notice haunts MKO Abiola’s son....Being an article published May 7, 2007

The last may not have been heard of the late politician and business mogul, Chief MKO Abiola’s children, almost ten years after his passage.

With everybody to himself, following their father’s death in military custody in 1998, life has been a mixed bag for some of the children who have since come to terms with surviving on their own.

But with that famous line “Life’s been a little bit hard on me”, made into a household jingle by Juice Newton in the 80s, it offers a glum insight into how surviving on their own has been for some of the Abiolas, particularly Lekan.