By J.B Mairubutu I woke up gloomy this morning despite the fact that power holders had agreed to smile on us by restoring the power they had deliberately withheld for days – four good days. I was supposed to be happy but I just couldn’t find that fresh air of excitement. I hurled to the […]
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By Reuben Abati The cities of Daura -President Muhammadu Buhari’s home town, Kano – his political base, and Kaduna -where he has a home, and where the aircraft that brought him from London landed early Friday, March 10, as well as other parts of the North saw the people trooping out to jubilate and thank […]
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By Reuben Abati I have very vivid memories of my last visit to The Gambia. This was in 2013 when President Goodluck Jonathan paid a two-day visit to the country. In the course of that visit, President Jonathan commissioned the new Chancery of the Nigerian Embassy in Banjul, and also met with the Nigerian community, […]
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By Reuben Abati “Happy New Year, my brother” “What do you mean happy new year, more than two weeks into the New Year. Have I not been in touch with you since January 1?” “But for you the New Year has just started. Your January 1 was not on January 1” “Looks like you have […]
Continue ReadingThe Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, visited Reuben Abati, spokesman of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation and Musiliu Obanikoro, former minister of state for defence, who are currently being detained at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja. According to Wilson Uwujaren, […]
Continue ReadingThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday granted bail to a former Presidential Spokesman, Reuben Abati, after being detained for since on 24th of October. The conditions for his bail included; releasing his International Passport, and being able to produce a surety of not below Level 16 in the Civil Service. The EFCC had arrested Abati […]
Continue ReadingReuben Abati, a former Special Adviser to erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan on media and publicity was arrested on Monday evening by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mr. Abati was arrested by the anti graft agency in Abuja and is being detained at the Federal Capital Territory’s office of the Commission. According […]
Continue ReadingBy Femi Fani-KayodeI read Reuben Abati’s excellent write-up titled “The Spiritual Side Of Aso Villa” and I concur with his submissions. I worked in the Villa for three years as President Olusegun Obasanjo’s spokesman on public affairs and a lot of very strange things happened there. Amongst them is the fact that the two people […]
Continue ReadingBy Reuben AbatiPresident Muhammadu Buhari’s strategists, if they are at work at all, are chasing ants and ignoring the elephant in the room. They do him great disservice. Their oversight is hubristically determined either by incapacity or a vendetta-induced distraction. It is time they changed the game and the narrative; time they woke up. It’s […]
Continue ReadingBy Reuben AbatiOne of the most frustrating things about Nigeria’s political history is how it keeps repeating itself and nothing ever seems to change, and the political elite doesn’t seem to learn from history. The present administration has not yet spent up to two years in office and already the language of politics is dominated […]
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