Obasanjo Dismisses NNPC Refinery Search As Exercise In Futility

  Billions of dollars in rehabilitation contracts and a decades-long search for efficiency have failed to shift former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s conviction that Nigeria’s state-owned refineries are beyond repair. As the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited pushes toward a June 2026 deadline to secure technical partners for the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna facilities,…

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Grassroots Development and the Planned Delisting of Local Governments from the Constitution

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo recently reflected the fears in the minds of most development analysts, that the survival of local government administration in Nigeria rests on divine intervention. The ex-Nigerian leader, who recently received the new National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) president, Comrade Akeem Olatunji Ambali at his Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Penthouse…

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Obasanjo-Gumi Security Dialogue and the Rationale Behind Calls for Special Courts

When Former President Obasanjo and Sheik Gumi held a closed-door dialogue in Abeokuta last Sunday, it attracted a lot of curiosity among the citizens. As the duo emerged from their closed-door meeting after some hours, their joint statement called for special courts to prosecute bandits and kidnappers across the country. They made this known through…

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