Category: Tributes

Until yesterday, the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Federation, Chief Richard Akinjide was one of the oldest lawyers in Nigeria. He died at the age of 88. He was among the second set of the early lawyers in Nigeria to be conferred with the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) in […]

By Banji Ayoola Emmanuel Olugbenga Olaofe, we will always remember how good you were, how loving, how genuine you were in your words and deeds, how you charged wherever you entered with your personal warmth, with your volition which aimed at everything that was good and of benefit to all.  Now that you are called […]

By Simeon Olagoke Binuyo The fact still remains that our beloved Gbenga Olaofe will continue to live in our hearts. Indeed we have lost a gem, very unassuming, very intelligent, glamorous, sociable, kind, generous and humble. Inspite of his record breaking feats and achievements, the enviable heights to which providence and God had taken him, […]

By Taoheed Ajao In the late 50s and early 60s when the privilege to spend holidays at the Pilot Sawmill, Aponmu, near Akure, was part of the motivation for doing well in school, mama — Iye’Uka — was the one majorly responsible for turning our experience into a dream to be constantly relived by her […]

Tunji Abayomi I’m sad to find the courage to announce that one of the greatest humans that ever lived on earth Guy Gargiulo of Okeagbe passed into immortality last night.  We cannot cry. Gargiulo was too much for our tears. We can only reflect in sober contemplation about his unusual life of sacrifice. GG winner […]

By sola Lebile The day had ripped but the dull weather gave it a morning colour. It was a wet Monday and still another rain was approaching. Everywhere anywhere, the rain was showing its watering presence. And as I was waddling through the numerous posts on that chilly day when the news propped up, announcing […]

By Yinka Fabowale “Yinka I’d thought there was no person with your kind of voice, but hey, your diction can’t stand your old man’s. That man’s got the richest baritone I’ve ever heard.” That was my girlfriend remarking of my father after we both met and sat with him for some moment at a society […]