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OPINION: Reliving Adetiloye’s Counsel For Nigeria
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By Suyi Ayodele
At the funeral service for late Chief Adekunle Ajasin on Saturday, November 15, 1997, this is what the late Primate of the Anglican Communion, Abiodun Adetiloye, said about Nigeria and its leaders. The fiery Anglican priest told those who gathered to honour the former governor of old Ondo State, at Saint Andrew’s Cathedral Anglican Church, Owo, venue of the funeral rites, why, despite the natural resources God blessed Nigeria with, the people live in abject poverty. In the congregation on that fateful day was the equally now late General Oladipo Diya, who was then the Second-in-Command to the expired tyrant, General Sani Abacha. Adetiloye said while other nations with less mineral resources protested to God for being partial to Nigeria by depositing several natural resources in the country, God told the placard-carrying nations to calm down and wait to see the type of leaders He would appoint to Nigeria to manage all the resources deposited in the land. The Anglican Primate saw our present conditions years ago. He asked everyone to look around and do personal assessment of how well their leaders had managed those resources in view of the abject poverty traversing the country in a three-piece suit. That sermon was preached 26 years ago. Adetiloye told those who gathered to listen to him, that God gave Nigeria locusts as leaders to manage its resources. Locusts do no other business; they simply waste every vegetation they invade. So, it has been for Nigeria. If you are not too comfortable with this fact by the late Prelate, just take a look around your neighbourhood and tell your next-door neighbour what you see.
The Nigerian lethargic leadership has made the jobs of religious leaders simple. With the present conditions of the Nigerian masses, pastors and imams alike don’t have to stress themselves asking their congregants to live right to avoid what the Christians call Hell, and their Muslim counterparts refer to as Mashiu Nari (مأواه الجهنم او مثواه النار). I don’t think anyone who lives in present-day Nigeria, who goes through the pains that are visited on the people, will still desire to be somewhere else worse than this place. You may not like the sound of it: Hell, or Mashiu Nari is here with us!
Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election was in Benin last Thursday for a colloquium held in honour of the national chairman of LP, Mr. Julius Abure. In his goodwill message at the event, Obi reaffirmed what Primate Adetiloye said over two and half decades ago. The former governor of Anambra State noted that with the natural and human resources Nigeria is blessed with, the nation had no reason to be poor. He went ahead to say that while he never claimed to be a Saint himself, he boasted that he had not been found doing the wrong thing. Then he dropped the clincher. As much as God was generous to Nigeria in terms of human and natural resources, the Creator did not give the country good leaders, he quipped. Here is how he put it: “All resources,l anybody, there is nothing wrong with Nigeria; Nigeria has one of the best in terms of land, weather, God-given resources and the people. One thing God has not given Nigeria is good leaders; if we have good leaders, we would do better. A country like Nigeria has no reason to be poor if not because of leadership….” Obi appeared, at that event, to understand where our problem lies. He blamed the politicians for our woes. Hear him again: “The reason why the country is failing today is lack of plan; and when you talk about lack of planning, you are talking about lack of implementation because we politicians, when we are campaigning, everything is sweet and good. But once we have the opportunity, we would bring out our true side and start doing the opposite and reserve our pride for implementation.” Nothing could have been more truthful!
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Sir Wilson Leonard Spencer Churchill was the United Kingdom (UK), Prime Minister twice from 1940 to 1945, and 1951 to 1955. His leadership qualities, especially how he managed the post-second world war UK, remain a reference point till date. His numerous speeches on quality leadership and good governance are seminar papers for students of social sciences. Speaking of the great leader, an American writer, speaker and businessman, James Strock, in a November 29, 2022, article titled: “10 Winston Churchill Leadership Lessons”, says: “There is an ultimate test of leadership: would events have turned out differently but for their service? Churchill is one of the rare leaders of history who undoubtedly passes this demanding test. The history of England, the history of Europe—indeed, the history of the world, would have turned out differently but for his individual contribution of service in 1940-41.” Not yet done, quoting Geoffrey Best, who Strock describes as “one of Churchill’s most effective recent biographers”, the American writer pens these words again of Churchill: “By the time Churchill died, Britain was fast turning into a land in which such a man as he was could never again find room to flourish, with a popular culture increasingly inimical to his values and likely therefore not to notice or properly appreciate his achievements….In the years 1940 and 1941 he was indeed the savior of the nation. His achievements, taken all in all, justify his title to be known as the greatest Englishman of his age…” He added a caveat thus: “That is not to say he was always right. He could be disastrously wrong and wrong-headed”, but everything put together, Churchill remains the best the UK ever had. This opinion is reinforced by the popular Cambridge scholar, Sir Geoffrey Elton, who says of Churchill thus: “There are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill—whether they can see that no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.” Adetiloye, titled his referenced sermon “Teach Us to Number Our Days”, taken from Psalm 90:12. On Pa Ajasin’s tomb at the Saint Matthew’s Cathedral Anglican Church, Owo, is written this epitaph: “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them (Rev 14:13)”. Do our leaders really care about what people will say about them after they are long gone? Do they give a thought to what my people call Àtubòtán (Hereafter)?
There is no argument about the fact that acquiescence and docility on the part of the followers are parts of our problems as a nation. Obi also pointed this out in his Benin engagement when he intoned that while the locust leadership stole and wasted public funds, the masses “celebrate them”. But the greatest problem, in my opinion, is the insensitivity of our leaders. The type of people that we have had and still have in positions of authority in this nation, especially from 1999, when the present ‘democratic’ dispensation began, are too unfeeling; they are simply far removed from the pains of the people. The last two or three weeks have been very troubling for Nigeria that one begins to ask if we have effigies at the top of our affairs. While we are still debating the insensitivity of members of the National Assembly who are acquiring Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), worth N168m each as their official cars, because, as they argued, “our roads are bad; and not motorable”, another one was dropped on us by the Executive arm, which submitted a supplementary budget of N2.176 trillion to the National Assembly for approval, without a single line item on the list having anything to do with how to ameliorate the harsh economic condition of the poor people, or to build any of our moribund or decaying public utilities. All the supplementary budget, presented less than 60 days to the end of the year, contains items that have to do with the personal comfort of the president, the vice president, and the wife of the president. How will any rational mind justify a budget of N4 billion apiece for the renovation of Dodan Barracks, Lagos official residences of the President and Vice President? How much will it cost to build new official residences for the duo, if indeed, that is our priority at this moment? What exactly will the president and the Vice President be doing in Lagos such that they must be quartered in buildings “renovated” at the cost of N8 billion naira? President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s residence in Ikoyi is less than 10 minutes’ drive to Dodan Barracks. Are we saying if he has any business to stay in Lagos for a day or two, his Bourdillon Street mansion is no longer befitting? Where, for instance, will he retire to after his tour of duty as president? Is it just the case of what my Ekiti people call “Àdá aládã poo lòra igi” (it is another man’s cutlass that is used anyhow to cut any tree).
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The nation’s economy is gasping for breath with the oxygen running out, faster than we can imagine. The economists in and out of the government told us that only Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) could bail us out. We did not question their submissions. But tell me, which foreign investor would put his resources in an economy, where the first budget the DFI-infested government would present is one which allocated a whopping N1.5 billion to buy official cars for the president’s wife? Just last week, like common japeries, wives of former and current governors gathered in Ibadan, Oyo State, for what they termed: “First Ladies Against Cancer”. I asked, like the Cross River State correspondent of Daily Trust, Charles Eyo, once asked Chief Femi Fani-Kayode: who bankrolled the Ibadan junket? How much of Oyo State Government funds were expended on the hosting of the “First Ladies”? What about the other ‘First Ladies’ who attended the event with their aides, who paid for them? What is the relevance of governors, or president’s wives to the day-to-day running of the government? We had a national disaster on April 14, 2014, with the mass abduction of our daughters in their school in Chibok, Borno State, and what did we get as the immediate reaction of the leader we elected to protect us? Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ), was the one who summoned the parents and teachers of the abducted girls to Aso Rock Villa, where she made her risible “Daris God ooo”, remarks! What is the use of N1.5 billion cars for the wife of the president, when Nigerians are stranded at bus stops waiting for non-existing public transport? Did Nigerians elect the president and their governors alongside their wives such that separate offices are created for them at the expense of our common patrimony? So, a sensible foreign investor reading all the charades would still bring his funds to be eaten up by locusts?
A friend sent to me some videos of a retired Naval officer, Commodore Kunle Olawunmi, who, while explaining the desirability of the N5 billion presidential Yacht included in the supplementary budget, said that the yacht was meant for the president to inspect the nation’s Navy’s war fleet known in military parlance as “Flag showing, or Fleet Review”, a ceremonial parade of the Navy’s war ships arsenal. Good enough, the retired military man, who is now into academics, expressed misgivings about the newness of the yacht, and its actual cost, which he said might be just a fifth of the budgeted cost. On a personal note, I don’t have any problem with the president having a presidential yacht as it is the practice in other countries. My issue with this one is the timing. Is this what we need now? What is the use of our president inspecting the warships on the fleet of our Navy from a N5 billion yacht, when the same Navy has not been able to halt the daily theft of our crude oil from the high sea? Were there no Navy and its fleet of warships when a vessel siphoned our crude, sailed off, undetected, only to be apprehended in faraway Equatorial Guinea, which does not boast of one tenth of the fleet of our Navy? How about the pirates who torment seafarers unchecked by the ‘war ship’ that the navy would want to showcase at a “Fleet Review”? At this period of our economic woes, which is more desirable between a ceremonial presidential yacht and naval equipment that would make the monitoring of our international waters seamless for our military? The one they labelled “clueless”, GEJ, as reported by Daily Trust newspapers in its June 30, 2010, edition, received a proposal for a N3.3 billion presidential yacht by the Navy, and he shot it down by the stroke of his pen! Who inserted that item into the supplementary budget? Who vetted the budget before it was sent to the National Assembly? Why has no head rolled for causing the president such an embarrassment such that his government had to explain? While those who should know have given us the definition of what a presidential yacht is and that is the practice all over the world, the Presidency came up with its usual slatternly explanation that calling the N5 billion yacht “Presidential Yacht” is a mischaracterisation. One wonders why it is difficult for the president’s aides to come to terms with the fact that the issue with the yacht is not about its desirability or ownership, but the wrong timing of either the Navy or the Presidency purchasing the yacht. To add to the insult, one of the key figures in the government, Senator Ali Ndume, the Senate Chief whip, announced on a live television programme that the yacht had been purchased, and delivered, but only to be paid for! Can anyone beat that! Pray, which company, and which country, released a N5 billion ship to an insolvent economy like Nigeria’s? When will those in power accept that the Nigerian people have some level of intelligence? When will our leaders at all levels of governance start to write their names in gold? When exactly will they begin to number their days to acknowledge the vanity of their whims and profligate desires?
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Edo Hospital Denies Complexity In Death Of Twin Babies
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August 26, 2025By
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Management of the Med-Vical Medical Centre in Benin City, has denied allegations of medical negligence, secrecy and incompetence in the handling of the very ill extreme pre-term twin babies referred from another facility to them.
Med-Vical Medical Centre is specialized in paediatric and neonatal intensive care services with state of the art facilities for respiratory care and life support
The pre-term babies died on separate days at the neo-natal intensive care centre.
Parents of the babies, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sylvester had petitioned the Police calling for discreet investigation into the death of their babies.
They accused the hospital of taking one of the babies to the mortuary without informing them.
But the hospital said the babies were delivered pre-term in another hospital, but subsequently referred from a second private hospital to our facility at about 9pm on July 9th.
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The Consultant Paediatrician/Neonatologist of the hospital, Dr. Enato Gertrude said she received the babies who were in a critical condition and diagnosed them to have severe prematurity, severe respiratory distress syndrome, severe neo-natal sepsis and peri-natal asphyxia.
Dr. Enato said despite the fact that the parents of the babies could not provide 50 percent of what was needed to start treatment, they commenced treatment in a race to save the babies.
She said the parents were counseled, informed and their consent sought on every step taken to treat the babies.
Dr. Enato said the first twin died after eight days of being admitted at the facility, while the second one died after three weeks.
According to her, “I wasn’t there at the delivery. I don’t know what transpired. I don’t know everything that happened until they got to our facility which was several hours after the children were born, because they came into our facility very ill.
“When the children came, we diagnosed them and put the babies on the machine and started treatment, there is a minimum deposit that is supposed to be paid. The babies needed tubings, surfactants and caffeine citrate, which are expensive. They are not even readily available over the counter.
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“They’re actually specially ordered, specially packaged, and cold chain must be maintained with them. And they are quite expensive. I don’t produce them. I buy them to use for the babies. And it’s supposed to help these babies. So at this point, the parents didn’t have enough money for all of this. I think the father had less than 50% of the money because he said he couldn’t get the money at that time.
“He came to meet me and I just told the billing officer not to bother them, let’s attend to these babies first, collect what he had. So I think then he had just 250,000 or so for each baby. But we were not focusing on the money. We just needed to save the lives of the babies of which we continued the care.
“We placed both babies on the machine and we continued to give antibiotics and oxygen therapy. And at a point, we noticed that the respiratory distress was not getting better and we informed the parents.
“while on admission we noticed the babies had thrombocytopenia (low platelets) and immediately we told the parents to get what they call platelets. Due to the severe sepsis, we also requested for blood culture.
“At a point on day eight, we noticed that the thrombocytopenia for baby two was not getting better despite all that we had done. A diagnosis of severe neonatal sepsis with multiple organ dysfunction and disseminated intravascular coagulation was made.
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“So we called the parents and counselled them that we needed to put the baby on the ventilator for complete life support but at this time the baby was bleeding from thrombocytopenia and we carried the parents along. They saw what happened. Despite all our resuscitation efforts for the baby, the baby succumbed to the illness. The father wasn’t happy after we explained everything to him. It was quite painful at that time for everybody.
“Following the passing of the first twin, the father became hostile and we tried to counsel him but he was difficult to get him to calm down. We even suggested referring the second twin to UBTH, but he quickly declined and pleaded for treatment to continue, as they had no where else they preferred to go to.
“We did a lot for these babies to ensure that the second baby continued to live but two weeks after the passing of the first baby, we noticed bleeding continued for the second one despite blood transfusion with platelets administration, and the baby needed a mechanical ventilator (life support).
“We counseled the mother and told the mother that at this point that the baby had poor prognosis. Chances of survival was slim and she said yes that we should continue to do everything she has faith that the baby will survive.
“On wednesday we saw a little bit of improvement but it declined again and the baby had to be continued on mechanical ventilator life support, but the baby succumbed to the illness.”
She said the parents were contacted, the mother came to see the corpse of the child, she left and didn’t return.
“Due to the delay in claiming the corpse after 12 hours of demise and after several attempts to reach the father to no avail, we decided to take the corpse to the mortuary. We never denied the parents access to their child’s corpse.”
The hospital further added that they are committed to transparency and accountability in their operations adding that at Med Vical Medical Centre, patients safety and well-being are top priorities as they strive to provide highest quality care.

By Suyi Ayodele
Rome’s history offers timeless lessons for all nations to jealously guard their freedom. Consider one of its emperors, Caligula: Born Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, he reigned from AD 37 to AD 41. Known as Little Boots, Caligula’s four-year reign epitomised tyranny.
Albert Camus captured his ruthlessness in his 1938 play “Caligula”, while Stephen Dando-Collins’ 2019 book, “Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome”, and Kate Zusmann’s article, “Roman Emperor Caligula: The Mad Tyrant of Rome”, give vivid portraits of his excesses.
Zusmann wrote: “Caligula’s reign lasted only four years, but his cruel and unpredictable behavior earned him a reputation as one of the most notorious emperors in Roman history… He engaged in construction projects to emphasize his power and divine status. He humiliated senators by forcing them into menial tasks or public spectacles.”
Though he initially presented himself as a noble leader, he soon became Rome’s worst emperor. He wielded taxation and reckless spending as weapons of control.
One account records: “Caligula squandered 2.7 billion sesterces in his first year and addressed the deficit by confiscating estates, levying fines, and even imposing the death penalty to seize wealth. He crippled the Roman Senate in the process.”
Freed from opposition, he built an extravagant bridge at Baiae and introduced crippling taxes on everything, taverns, artisans, slaves, food, litigation, weddings, even prostitutes and their pimps. Taxes doubled in just four years, leaving ordinary Romans broken and resentful.
Is this not eerily familiar? In some places in Nigeria today, task force agents harass even mourners transporting corpses. They must pay the State.
Caligula’s Rome is a warning. When opposition disappears, tyranny grows unchecked, and taxation becomes limitless. Nigeria is already on that path.
Read this report: “It was gathered that governors on the shopping list of the APC include the Enugu State governor, Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri, Plateau State governor, Caleb Muftwang and the Zamfara State governor, Alhaji Dauda Lawal.”
That was how the Nigerian Tribune concluded its lead story on page five of its Monday, August 25, 2025, edition, titled: “Tension grips PDP leaders as APC targets more govs.” Two riders followed: “South-East, South-South, North-Central govs on shopping list” and “Tinubu to receive another PDP gov on arrival.”
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An average student of Nigeria’s political history should be deeply troubled by this report. The concern is not just the well-known fact that Nigeria’s political elite rarely show fidelity to principles, loyalty, or decency, but rather the imminent danger this trend poses to the survival of democracy and to the ordinary masses.
We must ask ourselves: what awaits the common man if Nigeria slides into a one-party state? Can the current wielder of power – the architect of this emerging no-opposition order – truly manage such a system? If today, under the pretense of multiparty democracy, impunity has already reached its peak, what happens when there is no one left to challenge those in power?
History warns us that we are about to repeat our mistakes. Nigeria has a peculiar habit of forgetting her sordid past. Some call it resilience; I disagree. What we parade as resilience is actually a battered psyche. Nigerians have been beaten into submission by those who weaponized poverty. With crumbs thrown here and there, leaders get away with political robbery. We have been conquered.
The sages warned us that thunder must not be allowed to strike twice in the same place. Their reasoning was simple: if bad history repeats itself, its second coming will be catastrophic – so tragic that no one will have the words to describe it.
That Nigeria is gradually sliding into a one-party state should raise an alarm. Euphemism has no place here. A one-party Nigeria under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is an invitation to disaster. The consequences will not stop with the opposition; even those within the president’s inner circle will eventually taste the venom. Tyrants spare no one—not even their favourites. We are headed down that perilous road.
Make no mistake: a one-party state will kill this democracy. It has happened before—not once, but twice. Some of us lived through it, others read about it. Nigeria lost two republics because those in power chose tyranny and crushed opposition.
The First Republic collapsed when the ruling Northern People’s Congress (NPC) attempted to monopolise political power. It formed alliances, coerced defections, and silenced dissent. Opposition leaders were detained on trumped-up charges. Resistance sparked the violent Operation Wetie in Western Nigeria in 1962. By January 15, 1966, the First Republic was dead.
What followed were the January and July 1966 coups, and then a 30-month civil war that consumed over two million lives. Yet we learnt nothing. When the chance came again in 1979, we squandered it.
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By mid-1982, the ruling National Party of Nigeria (NPN) had perfected its plan to decimate opposition. It swallowed the PRP in Kano and Kaduna, captured the NPP in old Anambra, and went after the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN). Oyo and Bendel fell to its onslaught, while only Ondo resisted—and that resistance produced bloodshed. By December 1983, the Second Republic collapsed, swept away by the military coup of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari. For the next 16 years, Nigeria was under the jackboot.
Whichever way we spin it, the truth is clear: the destruction of opposition in both the First and Second Republics laid the foundation for their collapse.
Those who defend the current defections as freedom of association miss the point. We are not disputing that right. What we warn against is the danger of acquiescing while political and economic power concentrate in the hands of one man. As Aesop warned: “Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.”
Those who think they can collaborate with the ruling party, pledging loyalty in opposition but serving power in secret, should think again. When tyranny consumes a nation, no one is spared. As the proverb goes, when heaven falls, it falls on everyone; the rain has no enemy.
Caligula reigned until his own guards turned on him. Tyranny and rebellion are monozygotic twins. Let today’s plotters of a one-party Nigeria take note.
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, in “How Democracies Die” (2018), explain it best: democracies rarely collapse through external invasion. They are destroyed from within, through the slow erosion of norms and the ambitions of authoritarian leaders. Nigeria is walking that path again.
Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams, in How to Win Elections in Africa (2017), observe that political parties in Nigeria are not built on coherent ideology but on opportunism. The APC, they argue, never stood on any deep philosophy; it merely capitalized on the weaknesses of the PDP. That explains why even serving PDP governors are defecting in droves to join it. But what exactly is the attraction? To answer that, let us revisit one of our old moonlight tales.
Long ago, when animals behaved like humans, Ikún, the deaf squirrel, desired to live as long as mortals. It went to a diviner to seek the Oracle’s blessing.
The divination was swift and stern: for Ikún to live long, it must avoid anything sweet that came from the enemy.
Ikún protested. Why should it shun sweet things when everyone knew it delighted in them?
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The Oracle replied with finality: What is sweet kills faster than anything else.
Ikún left, troubled. It wondered who its enemy could be. The only one that came to mind was the groundnut farmer, whose produce it relished. Resolving to obey the warning, Ikún avoided the groundnut farm.
The farmer soon noticed that Ikún no longer raided his crops. Suspicious, he tried several tricks. He attempted to smoke Ikún out of its burrow, but failed—for as elders say, òrò burúkú kii ká ikún mó’lé (misfortune never meets the squirrel at home). He tried hunting it at night, but that too failed—for ikún kii jé l’óru (the squirrel never ventures out at night).
At last, the farmer set a trap, using ripe banana as bait. The fruit was carefully placed over the blade, waiting to spring at the slightest tug.
Not long after, Ikún wandered by and spotted the banana. Overjoyed, it rushed forward. Banana was a delicacy, and its sweetness irresistible. Ikún took a bite, wagged its tail, and forgot all about the Oracle’s warning. It bit again, wagged its tail, and then tried to carry the whole banana away.
In a flash, the trap snapped. Ikún was caught between the jaws of death. Too late, it realised the truth: the sweet gift from the enemy was a lure to destruction. With its dying breath, it remembered the Oracle’s words.
Our elders, who preserved this tale, summed it up in the saying: ikun ńjẹ ògèdè, ikún ńrè’dí; ikún ò mọ̀ pé ohun tó dùn mà únpa ènìyàn (the squirrel wags its tail while eating banana, not knowing that what is sweet is what kills a man).
And that, precisely, is what the defecting governors are doing today. The banana from the ruling APC is sweet, but beneath its sweetness lies a deadly trap.
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PHOTOS: Brazil Welcomes Tinubu With Full Military Honours In Brasília
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August 25, 2025By
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Brazil on Monday rolled out full military honours at the Planalto Palace in Brasília to receive President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this on X on Monday.
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Onanuga said Tinubu was welcomed by his host, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Onanuga said Tinubu was welcomed by his host, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
He wrote, “More photos of the official reception for President Tinubu at the Planalto Palace in Brasília, Monday, August 25, 2025. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva welcomed President Bola Tinubu with full military honours.”
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