The internet buzzed with reactions after a video surfaced showing President Bola Tinubu slipping while boarding a presidential parade vehicle at Eagle Square in Abuja. The incident occurred during the 2024 Democracy Day celebrations on Wednesday. President Tinubu had arrived at Eagle Square for the ceremony and was climbing the parade truck when he misstepped momentarily. Despite the slip, he quickly regained his balance with the help of his security aides and continued with the proceedings. Dada Olusegun, the Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Social Media, downplayed concerns over the incident. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he…
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, mocked President Bola Tinubu over the earlier embarrassing incident at Eagle Square, Abuja. Tinubu had earlier on Wednesday missed his step and fell while walking into a parade vehicle at the Eagle Square in commemoration of Democracy Day. The president, who had earlier delivered a nationwide broadcast, arrived at Eagle Square for the parade on Wednesday morning. Military officers and some personal aides immediately surrounded the President, who was dressed in a white native attire popularly known as agbada and his signature cap. He struggled to save himself by holding on to the vehicle,…
Samuel Adesola, Abuja Organised Labour, on Wednesday, rejected President Bola Tinubu’s claims that an agreement has been reached on the new national minimum wage. Tinubu had made the claim in his Democracy Day nationwide broadcast. Tinubu had claimed that a consensus had been reached on the long-debated new minimum wage between the Federal Government and organised labour. Tinubu had in his national broadcast to mark the 2024 Democracy Day, disclosed that an executive bill will soon be sent to the National Assembly to formalise the new minimum wage agreement. He stressed that his administration chose a democratic approach over dictatorship…
Henry Iyorkase, Makurdi Benue State Governor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, says he has no regrets stepping on the toes of powerful individuals to bring happiness and succour to people in the state. Governor Alia stated this on Wednesday during Democracy Day celebrations at IBB Square in Makurdi, Benue State. He reiterated his promise to enhance the economic development and improve the welfare of the people. Alia explained that his frantic efforts at changing the narrative where governance hitherto existed for privileged minority, had earned him enmity from the powerful minorities. The Governor said despite the enmity, he had remained resolute…
As Nigeria celebrates the 2024 Democracy Day, National Association of Seadogs, popularly known as Pyrates Confraternity, has called on both the National Assembly and the Federal Government to ensure continuous reforms of the nation’s electoral system towards attaining full digital and electronic voting in the country. The Confraternity said such continuous reforms of the electoral system would enable the country to attain the conduct of sound, free, fair and credible elections in the nearest future. It also stated that such continuous electoral reforms would ensure that the supreme sacrifices made by the late winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential…
A renowned human rights activist and Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), Comrade Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, has described the winner of the fairest and freest June 12,1993 Presidential election, late Bashorun MKO Abiola as a beacon of the current democratic experiment in the country. He stressed that the likes of Abiola’s late wife, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Dr Beko Ransome- Kuti, Fela Anikulapo, Alao Aka- Bashorun, Abraham Adesanya,.Bola Ige, Alfred Rewane, Adekunle Ajasin, Anthony Enahoro,Ola Oni, among others,were part of those who have transited to great beyond, having fought relentlessly for the restoration of…
Presidential Candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, says Nigeria is not practicing true democracy and has rather degenerated to dictatorship and classical state capture. Obi said while commenting on this year’s June 12 democracy day commemoration, on Wednesday, in a series of posts on his X handle. According to him, leadership failure has resulted in uncontrolled systemic corruption, high levels of insecurity, lack of freedom of speech, increasing poverty rates, and unprecedented levels of hunger and hardship, which he said are consequences of lack of true democracy in the country. Obi said, “As our…
. It’s mere misstep, says presidential media aide President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, missed his steps, slipped and fell while boarding the parade vehicle at the Eagle Square venue of the 2024 Democracy Day. But in a swift reaction, Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Social Media, Olusegun Dada, said what happened was only ‘a mild misstep,’ stressing that there was no cause for alarm. The President had earlier delivered a nationwide broadcast on Wednesday morning. Shortly after he arrived at the Eagles Square, Abuja venue of the programme, Tinubu had attempted to climb into the vehicle that would convey him for…
As Nigeria marks the 2024 Democracy Day, some protesters, on Wednesday morning, converged under the Ikeja bridge in Lagos. Armed policemen and operatives of the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, however, maintained tight security at the venue. The crowd of protesters, carrying placards and banners, chanted solidarity songs. The inscriptions on some of the placards read, ‘President Tinubu, let the poor breathe’, ‘For another general strike with mass protest now’, ‘Payment of living wage to all Nigerian workers now.”
…praises Abiola, other June 12 heroes, vows to preserve democracy . Appeases Nigerians over harsh economic situation President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, warned Nigerians to be on alert against the antics of anti-democratic forces in the country. He, however, also praised the winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election, Chief Moshood Abiola and other heroes of democracy, including General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and Pa Alfred Rewane, among others. Tinubu, in his Democracy Day broadcast, also celebrated other heroes, including Chief Anthony Enahoro, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Commodore Dan Suleiman, Chief Arthur Nwankwo, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Chief…