Category: Tribute
Fasinro: Sanwo-Olu says Lagos will miss him greatly
Lagos State Governor-elect, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has expressed deep shock on the demise of Pa Hassan Adisa Fasinro, who died on Sunday evening at the age of ninety...
Alh. Senator Hassan Babatunde Fasinro- Q.C., OFR. 1919-2019
There goes a great man of letters, an very prominent Elder Statesman, brilliant Queen’s Counsel, a consummate and dedicated Administrator, a dye in the wool...
Ambode, Adebule, Okunu others pay condolence visit to Pa Fasinro’s family
Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode and his deputy, Mrs Idiat Adebule were among dignitaries who on Monday paid condolence visit to the family of late elder...
Kebbi Assembly ex-Speaker Dantani dies after protracted illness
A former Speaker of Kebbi State House of Assembly, Mohammed Dantani, has died. Dantani reportedly died in Abuja after a protracted illness. Dantani was also a member...
Bayelsa mourns as literary icon, Okara, dies at 97
One of Nigeria’s foremost and famous writers, poets and novelists, Dr Gabriel Okara, is dead. Okara who is from Boumadi, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa,...
Prof Pius Adesanmi’s widow speaks
I have no words to describe the depths of my pain on the untimely passing of my husband, Pius Adesanmi. He was an extraordinary scholar, husband, devoted father and a...
Saraki mourns Etsu Patigi
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has expressed sadness over the death of a foremost traditional ruler in Kwara State, the Etsu Patigi, Alhaji Umar...
Emir of Patigi is dead
The Emir of Patigi in Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara, Alhaji Ibrahim Chatta Umar, is dead. Umar reportedly died in Abuja on Tuesday night after a brief illness....
Crash victims’ families get bags of dirt for burial
Families of the 157 Ethiopian Airlines plane disaster were at the weekend given bags of scorched earth from the crash site in place of bodies for burial. The measure was...
Pius Adebola Adesanmi (1972 – 2019) – By Segun Adeniyi
Fading away like the stars of the morning, Losing their light in the glorious sun- Thus would we pass from the earth and its toiling, Only remembered by what we have...
