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My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (Part 18)

  By Dapo Thomas   The driver came back two minutes later to know if I was ready for business. I said yes, I was ready. He took me to his bus and told me to...

Isaac Adewole: The Golden Years of A Working Emeritus

By Kazeem Akintunde The management and staff of the University of Ibadan and the College of Medicine, UCH, rolled out the red-carpet on Thursday in honour of Professor...

My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (PART 17)

By Dapo Thomas   As I picked the stone, I wasn’t sure what to do with it but the man helped me decide; he looked back and I couldn’t throw it at him...

My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary(Part 16)

  By Dapo Thomas   Alfa Ligali must be right with his Abiku deductive logic. Some time, I used to wonder at the kind of affection or passion I had for...

What shall we say about Mike Adenuga at 71?

  Seventy years from now when the history of Nigerian enterprise is written, one name will tower, head and shoulders above many – Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola...

My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (Part 15)

    By Dapo Thomas   I returned from school to find out that Iya Ibadan was sick. She was down with a sudden disrespectful fever. As usual, she resisted...

My Diary From Primary to Tertiary (Part 14)

  By Dapo Thomas   Immediately Iya Ibadan delivered her homily on: “The GOD WHO sees but cannot be seen”, I was never myself again. The message was...

Yoruba Nation: A house divided against itself…

  By Bola BOLAWOLE turnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533 There is “two fighting”, as we used to say in those kindergarten days, between two prominent Yoruba Nation...

From Primary to Tertiary-(Part 13)

  By Dapo Thomas Surulere was a bubbling area in the late 1960s and all through the 1970s. It was full of life and fun, sanity and morality, benevolence and...

My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (Part 12)

  By Dapo Thomas   Determined to explore the opportunities inherent in formal competitive football tournaments and having seen the importance of football in...