June 12th; A revolutionary trigger for a democratic Nigeria

Today's June 12 gave birth to May 29... June 12 is our real Democracy Day.... M.K.O Abiola the symbol of Democracy lives on 23 years after, we still remember that faithful day June 12 1993.

Some stood on June 12, some shat on it....we neither laughed nor cried. as we threw ourselves with the utmost passion to the tasks of struggle in those momentous times: at the barricades; prison lodgings and; meetings in the craze outside world, our position was clear: "Neither MKO or IBB/Abacha" but for the working class' self-emancipation & system change. as with then, today illusions in another custodian is rife; a 1-chance custodian of one kind change.

Nigerian Military moves against Leadership Newspaper; soldiers seize consignment heading for North, South

In what appears a throwback to Nigeria’s dark days of military dictatorship, some soldiers who reportedly claimed they were acting on orders from above have confiscated today’s edition of Leadership Newspaper heading to the Northwest, Southeast and South-south regions of the country, an official of the paper has said.

Azubike Ishiekwene, managing director of the Leadership Group, said soldiers mounting a roadblock close to the tollgate along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway blocked the newspaper’s van heading to Kaduna and confiscated the entire consignment of the paper.