Category: Tribute
Ode to Justice Isiaka Oluwa
HE WAS THE ONE WHO PASSED A DEATH SENTENCE ON A LAGOS SOCIALITE, EJIGBADORO IN 1976. A NO-NONSENSE, INCORRUPTIBLE JUDGE. HE WAS THE BEST FRIEND TO JUSTICE YAYA JINADU,...
Tribute to Justice Isiaka Oluwa
By Chief Olabode George I am saddened, touched and disturbed by the passage of Justice Isiaka Oluwa. He was a good man. He was a Lagosian original, predicated on...
Kwara gov hails Olofa on 10th annivarsery
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated the Olofa of Offa Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi (Esuwoye II) on the 10th anniversary of his ascending the...
Michael Jackson’s mum turns 90, reflects on son’s death
Hers and her son’s (Michael Jackson) life are inextricably tied. And it seems they both traded fame and longevity. While she got the longevity her son never...
Omowura: Man who sat on 200 needles
(A review of Festus Adedayo’s ‘Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of an Apala Legend’) By Lasisi Olagunju, Ph.D Five hundred and thirty five pages...
Capt Kuti, dies at 78
Captain Harrison Adekunle Kuti, first Nigerian Commercial Pilot to fly Boeing 747 died after a brief illness on March 28, 2020. He was born in 1942. Captain...
Ex-Sokoto gov dies at 82
….A dedicated statesman says Tambuwal The late Nadama Second republic civilian governor of Sokoto state, Dr Garbage Nadama is dead. He passed on Monday at 82. The...
Ex-guber aspirant, Jaji, mourns Emir of Kaura-Namoda
¸ From Jimi Anjolaoluwa – Abuja Former Zamfara State Gubernatorial aspirant in All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Aminu Sani Jaji, on Monday said the late Emir...
Tony Allen’s last concert in Lagos/Nigeria
The event titled Lagos No Shaking Homecoming Tribute Concert was with a few acts on the scene here. His Nigerian manager based in the US Kole Payne facilitated same. The...
Tinubu opens up on what really killed his CSO
A good and decent man has gone. My Chief Security Officer, Alhaji Lateef Raheem, has passed and his death cuts severely. Lateef reported for work on Monday. Feeling a...
