Staff, (ThisDay) - Yar’Adua has approved the immediate recall of Nigeria’s Ambassador to the U.S., retired Brigadier-General Oluwole Rotimi, for “gross insubordination.” The decision to recall Rotimi followed his running disagreement with the Foreign Affairs Minister. • Calls Foreign Minister a tribalist • Boasts that he defeated Maduekwe’s “ragtag” Biafran Army.
Staff, (Daily Sun)- Reknowned economist, Professor Sam Aluko, in an encounter that took place at his Ijapo Housing Estate, Akure, Ondo State, has made startling revalations about two military coups that took place in 1995 and 1997 during the regime of the late General Sani Abacha. Aluko was Abacha’s Chief Economic Adviser while it lasted.