By Tana Aiyejina As the country celebrates Democracy Day in honor of the winner of the June 12 presidential election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, Tana Aiyejina writes about the lasting sports legacy left behind by the late politician. During an interview in 1992, after he was inducted into the African Football Hall of Fame and […]
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Special Personal Tribute By Kayode Soyinka When I left Concord newspapers as London Correspondent in October 1983, I was not sure what to do next. I did not know where my next job would be. This was the time when I needed a job the most. I had just got married, and my wife and […]
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By Femi Adesina All things are now ready. Last week, I wrote about the cleaning and clearing of my office in the State House, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The job is now done, and as a bride waits for her groom, the office now expects its next occupant, the Adviser on Media to the incoming President. […]
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Adeife and Akinola Twenty years after, two young and promising children were snatched away by the cold hands of death, the family said they might have died, but not forgotten. On April 20, 2003, Adeife, 14, and Akinola Sodipo-Akindeko, 10, were killed during an attack on the convoy of Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello. During their short […]
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By Sola Lebile As we mourn her painful and irreparable loss, while I visited the deceased’s husband the other day, commiserating with other mourners, I felt a loss of fragrance there at the home. And in a flash, images of certain encounters with her surfaced like a symphony. ‘She has gone!’, I shivered. Olori Helen […]
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First Baptist Church, Idikan, Ibadan By Oladele Idowu Joseph Please, permit me to begin with this poetic rendition in Yo’oba language, perhaps it will help set the right basis for comprehending this write-up in its true sense. “Idikan Ogbooja, nibi Gbegiri ti n pe Amala ran nise. Ti Dodo, Iresi at’Ewa n se tin-rin l’ofun, […]
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Retired military medical doctor, Brig. Gen. Oviemo Ovadje (left); Olorogun Oskar Ibru; his wife, Wanda; celebrant, Lady Maiden Alex-Ibru and Chief Marlies Allan during sharing of Lady Maiden’s 72nd birthday cake and 10th year memorial service for the late founding publisher of The Guardian, Dr. Alex Uruemu Ibru, at her Ikoyi residence in Lagos on […]
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Wole Soyinka (Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP) By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu My studies at Great Ife under Prof Wole Soyinka got off on a beery note. I was with my classmates in Soyinka’s house for practical lessons on television production when I told the future Nobel Laureate’s steward, the Ghanaian lad Francis, to […]
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By Sola Adeyegbe It was the year 2001. I had invited Prince Tony Momoh to speak at the 1st National Aviation Law and Business Seminar to be held at the NICON Hilton Abuja. Having served as Chairman of the board of directors of Nigerian Airways from 1991 to 1993, one surmised that he would have […]
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Ikeja Branch will on Friday host its annual ‘Fawhinmism’ lecture, in honour of the late rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Chief Gani Fawehinmi. The event with the theme: ‘The constitutional history of Nigeria’s dysfunction: Any pathway to indivisibility and common progress?’ will hold at the Oranmiyan Hall, Airport […]
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