Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, a business magnate, frontline Awoist, and market leader and mother of Nigeria’s President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu died on June 15, 2013, at the age of 96.
The presiding pastor of Salvation Ministries, Bishop David Ibiyeomie, has subtly likened the outcome of Nigeria’s recent presidential election with the combination of Pablo Escobar and Osama Bin Laden as President and Vice President. Ibiyeomie in one of his recent sermons in his church headquartered in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, said that any country where a drug baron and a terrorist leader serve as president and vice president is in big trouble.
The camp of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, for trying to present the $460,000 forfeiture case as one relating to tax evasion and not drug charges. SaharaReporters had reported how court papers from the US linked Tinubu to a drug trafficking case and his eventual forfeiture of the sum of $460,000 to the US government.
Uberfacts, an online web service and app that provides people with random facts across the globe, is trending for sharing the Certified True Copies of court documents on how former Lagos State governor and now, Nigeria's “president-elect” Bola Tinubu surrendered $460,000 to the United States Government in 1994 over drug trafficking.
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, on Tuesday filed his petition to challenge the victory of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 25 February election. The Independent National Electoral Commission had announced Tinubu as the winner of the election after which it declared him ‘President-elect’. In his petition before the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja, Obi alleged that the election was characterised by various irregularities including the non-qualification of the APC candidate.