Tag: June 12


  • Kudirat Abiola; Pro-democracy activist and wife of MKO Abiola who was widely believed to have won the June 12, 1993 presidential election that was cancelled by the military. Kudirat was bom in 1951 in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria, where she also had her early education. From her times at the Muslim Girls High…

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  • June 12 is a holiday celebrated in many Nigerian states, declared by the  Federal Government of President Buhari as a national holiday. June 12 commemorates the Nigerian presidential election of 1993 which has been described as the nation’s freest and fairest election and its first taste of true democratic process after years of military rule.…

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