Category: So Touching…

An ex-journalist turned public relations manager cum entrepreneur, Kolapo Abiodun, shares his extraordinary journey after losing his sight to glaucoma with Temitope Adetunji. He spoke on how the life-altering experience not only sparked his passion for mastering assistive technology but also ignited an unwavering determination to thrive against all odds. Could you share your journey […]

Plane Crash Widows of military officers who died in the Hercules C130 military jet that crashed in Lagos on December 26, 1992, have called on the Nigerian military and the Federal Government to pay them their late husbands’ entitlements. The military-transport plane crashed soon after takeoff from Lagos, killing all 163 people aboard. Many of […]

A young member of the Nigerian Bar Association, Akure Branch, Ayodele Pelumi Ologunmeta, who is battling kidney failure is pleading with well meaning individuals and organisations to support him with their kind donations to enable him undergo an urgent kidney transplant. The once physically active counsel, now bedridden, is looking up to the legal community […]

A Nigerian man has narrated the traumatising story of how he found himself under the Oshodi Bridge, in Lagos and slept there for two years, after living 21 years in the United States. According to the man who was tearful as he shared his story, he studied Banking and Finance in London, but his downfall […]

Toyin Omojola is a 29 year old lady eking a living in Akure the Ondo State capital. After obtaining a B.Ed Biology from Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, she ventured into fashion designing rather than going about looking for jobs that are not there . Toyin threw herself into her job while hoping for a […]

Gbade, the elder brother of the late Timothy Adegoke, a former master’s student at Obafemi Awolowo University who was found dead at Hilton Hotels Ile-Ife, Osun State, in November 2021, tells Bola Bamigbola how the bereaved family received the news of the conviction of the owner of the hotel, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin, and two of […]

Godfrey George tells the story of how child maids suffer at the hands of ruthless employers amid laws against child labour and abuse. Mr. Henry Oyibio’s death hit his family like a thunderbolt. He was a large-scale farmer based in Benue State and father to four girls who were all under nine when he passed. […]

Finally, justice on Tuesday came the way of the family of a Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, who was murdered in November 2021. An Osun State High Court passed a death sentence on an Ile-Ife hotelier, Ramon Adedoyin, and two of his staff, Bola Bamigbola writes. The already tense atmosphere […]