Oct 26, 2022What I Witnessed in Bayelsa is as disheartening as reports from other places.Yesterday, I visited Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, to have a personal experience of the devastation that victims of flooding across the country have been thrown into in the past few weeks. The scenes are horrendous, and it speaks to the seriousness that we must accord to climate change. What…Floods4 min readFloods4 min read
Sep 13, 2022Nigeria Dresses in Borrowed RobesNigeria Dresses in Borrowed Robes Being an Address Delivered by His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of Nigeria (1999–2007) and Presidential flag bearer of the People’s Democratic Party -PDP on September 13, 2022. I thank the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry for giving me this platform to speak to…Policy15 min readPolicy15 min read
Mar 8, 2022Women are game changers in our quest for development.Like in every dynamic society, the story of our great country, Nigeria, cannot be complete without the contribution of our amazing women. Either in contemporary times or in those periods when the bonds of our nationhood was being forged, Nigerian women have stood tall to be counted as worthy patriots. …International Womens Day4 min readInternational Womens Day4 min read
Nov 4, 2021Unity in DiversityBEING A SPEECH DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR, WAZIRIN ADAMAWA AND FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON UNITY IN DIVERSITY AT AREWA HOUSE ON THURSDAY, 4TH NOVEMBER 2021. PROTOCOL Unity in Diversity Unity in diversity is living in peace despite the differences among people…Atiku5 min readAtiku5 min read
Oct 22, 2021My Remarks at the Baze University Graduation CeremonySOLVING NIGERIA’S EDUCATION CHALLENGES Being Commencement Remarks at the Baze University Graduation Ceremony By Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Waziri Adamawa, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999–2007) PROTOCOL When I was young, anytime I came back from primary school, I used to take my neighbour’s cattle to the bush…Baze University10 min readBaze University10 min read
Aug 27, 2021We Must Keep Nigeria Financially Solvent For Future Generations.On June 16, 2020, I sounded an alarm to the nation that our debts have reached unsustainable levels, and were consuming over 90% of our revenue in debt servicing. That warning was a patriotic one, devoid of partisanship, and was meant as a wake up call to prevent the nation…Nigeria4 min readNigeria4 min read
Aug 22, 2021Development and Nation-Building for Nigeria’s FutureBeing Chairman’s Remarks by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Former Vice President Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Public Presentation of the book, Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices, held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, 19 August, 2021. On May 31st, 2016, at this very venue, I chaired the public…Nigeria8 min readNigeria8 min read
May 1, 2021The condition of Nigerian workers remains worrisome.As we commemorate this year’s Workers Day, we must note that in our ever hostile economic environment, the condition of Nigerian workers remains worrisome — a situation that makes saving and survival almost impossible. Even what we call basic food items are unaffordable, and we are in a situation where…May Day2 min readMay Day2 min read
Apr 27, 2021Darkness Awaits Us If We Do Not End The Attacks on Our Citadels of LearningThe abduction of an as at yet unspecified number of undergraduates of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, is one abduction too many. …Boko Haram2 min readBoko Haram2 min read
Jan 25, 2021Nigeria Needs The Peace Serum of Restructuring.Nigeria needs to be restructured. Just look at Nigeria today. This truth is staring us in our collective faces. The current ethnic and religious clashes bedevilling Nigeria are symptoms of the disease. They themselves are not the illness. …Nigeria5 min readNigeria5 min read
