By Kolapo Lawson (This tribute is on behalf of my wife, Adeyinka and myself.) When Alaba married my uncle, Kehinde (the younger brother of my late father, Chief Adeyemi Olusola Lawson), no-one could have predicted that this young unassuming lady would go on to live a life that would impact thousands and who would end […]
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By Yinka Fabowale My son, Oluwamayowa, began his secondary education career years ago with an impressive academic result, leading the entire Junior Secondary School (JSS) 1 of a reputed boarding school in Oyo, in the first term mathematics test. By the turn of the session, however, the boy’s performance had incredibly and disappointingly sagged to […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami will face Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr next February in the Riyadh Season Cup. Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi, who joined the US squad in July and sparked a championship run in the League Cup against US and Mexican clubs, is expected to meet Ronaldo, a five-time […]
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Nigeria’s Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala celebrates her goal in the 72nd minute against Australia on Thursday, July 27, 2023 Nigeria internationals Victor Osimhen and Asisat Oshoala have been nominated for the 2023 Globe Soccer Award. Organisers of the award, which is the 14th edition this year, announced the nominees on their X on Tuesday. […]
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Samanja, real name: Usman Baba Pategi, a veteran Hausa comedy actor has died, aged 84. He died on Sunday after a prolonged illness. He is survived by two wives and 12 children. Mohammad Usman, one of his sons said Samanja’s funeral prayer will be held at 10 am at a mosque in Kabala Costain, Kaduna. […]
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Narges Mohammadi. Photo: Wikipedia Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has begun a hunger strike in her Iranian prison in protest at limits on medical care for her and other inmates, as well as the obligation for women to wear the hijab in the Islamic republic, her family said on Monday. Veteran rights activist Mohammadi, […]
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CP Victor Olaiya, Sir Victor Olaiya Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Victor Olaiya, has said though he was surrounded by musicians in his family, he only managed to avoid becoming a musician by providence. The commissioner, who is one of the children of the late highlife maestro, Sir Victor Olaiya, who dominated the Nigerian music […]
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President Bola Tinubu has described the departed Iyalode of Yorubaland, Chief Alaba Lawson, as an enterprising, courageous, astute, distinguished businesswoman and leader, whose death is a painful loss to the nation. Lawson, a former National President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture, NACCIMA, and founder of the popular Alaba […]
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Rashidi Yekini Rashidi Yekini may have died since May 4, 2012, but that did not stop Google Doodle from celebrating his posthumous birthday as the Nigerian football legend clocks 60 today, October 23, 2023. Yekini remains one of the best strikers that Nigeria has ever produced, but having retired from the game a long time […]
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World Athletics (WA), yesterday, unveiled the names of nominees for Women’s Athlete of the Year 2023, but the name of 100m hurdles record holder, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, is missing from the lot. Amusan, who is Nigeria, Africa, and Commonwealth champion in the 100m hurdles, made history last year when she became the first Nigerian athlete […]
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