The incoming First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump and the incubent Michelle Obama on Nov. 10, 2016, met with for tea in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House.
Bakare slams northern elders opposing restructuring
The General Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has slammed Northern elders who are opposed to the call for Nigeria’s restructuring. Speaking on Friday in Ibadan at an event organised to mark the 50th year anniversary of the assassination of the first military governor of the defunct Western Region, Lt.-Col. Adekunle Fajuyi, he said any anti-restructuring position taken by the North would bring to the court of historical opinion the sincerity of the motives of the perpetrators of the counter coup that led to the death of Fajuyi in 1966. Bakare said, “The elders of the North, who today are opposed to the call to restructure Nigeria, have deviated from the ideals of the founding fathers of Northern Nigeria like the late Sir Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa. They were forerunners of Fajuyi in the Nigerian hall of martyrdom. “Lest we forget, these great Nigerian leaders from the North made it clear in the series of constitutional conferences that heralded Nigeria’s indepen...
