This was first published on March 12, 2018, nine days after her death. It is repeated wholly with only a headline change as a posthumous birthday seven years after. Lami Fatima Babare, my beloved wife, my friend, the mother of my children. Today marks one week of your painful...
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the late Afenifere stalwart, Ayo Adebanjo, as a great man, a committed nationalist, and an unpretentious personality. The elder statesman passed away on Friday in his home, Lekki, Lagos State, at the age of 96. In a tribute signed by his Special Assistant...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, reaffirmed Mr Julius Abure as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP). The three-member panel, in a judgment delivered by Justice Hamma Barka, relied on its judgement earlier delivered on Nov. 13, 2024, to make the declaration. The.panel made the...
A mother and her two children escaped death on Monday when a vehicle rammed into their living room in Dutse. The Police Public Relations Officer, Jigawa State Command , DSP Lawan Shiisu, said in a statement in Dutse that the incident occurred at about 12 midnight. Shiisu said the...
A Reminiscence by IYORWUESE HAGHER OON. Wanteregh Paul Iyorpuu Unongo, Nigeria’s Stormy Petrel, is no more. For more than sixty years, Unongo dominated the Nigerian political stage. He was a groundbreaking catalyst for social progress, a public intellectual, a revolutionary thinker, a ferocious fighter for social justice, a cultural...
Global Leaders Convene at NDLEA Headquarters to Advance “Investing in Prevention” Strategy for Combating Substance Abuse A landmark event took place at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Headquarters in Jahi, Abuja, as international delegates and global experts joined forces to discuss strategies for combating substance abuse through...
Beginning from Tuesday November 26 – final internment on the November 30th, 2024 in his hometown, Unongo village near Jato Aka, Kwande local government of Benue state, I met Wantaregh Paul Iyorpuu Unongo for the first time in the early 1960s at the annual convention of the Community...
The literary world and admirers across Nigeria and beyond continue to honour Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka as celebrations for his 90th birthday extend into their second week. On Tuesday evening, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu hosted a special dinner at the State House to pay tribute to the renowned...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Legendary music promoter and Chairman of Evergreen Musical Company, Chief Femi Esho, passes away at 77. Chief Esho died on Monday in Lagos after a brief illness, according to a statement issued by his daughter, Bimbo Esho. She said: “We announced the passing...
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has announced the suspension of Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, Senior Pastor of the City of David parish. A senior church official stated that the suspension is in response to public backlash following the extravagant birthday celebration for Pastor Iluyomade’s wife, Siji, which took...
Enugu State Government has said that plans are underway to revamp the 85 abandoned tourist sites spread across the state. The Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Ugochi Madueke, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Monday. Madueke said that the...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – Plateau State Governor, Barr. Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, has called for unity among the various ethnic groups in the state to protect their heritage in the face of impending threats to their ancestral lands. The appeal was made during the 2024 Nzem Berom cultural...
Veteran Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko, on Tuesday mourned Elizabeth Evoeme, popularly known as Ovularia in the 1980s TV sitcom, ‘The New Masquerade’, who died at the age of 81. Kosoko, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, described the late actress as a...
The Oyo State Government has inaugurated a 10-member committee for the 2024 World Sango Festival, to hold in August. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Sango Festival, was enlisted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the list of World Heritage...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Government has cleared all arrears of staff owed salaries from 2015 – 2018. “All the 149 staff of Obudu Mountain Races have been paid salaries up till date”. “International investors and corporate bodies to take up and sponsorship of different...
The Court of Appeal President, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), and the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (BOSAN) on Thursday paid glowing tribute to the late Justice Theresa Orji-Abadua. Until her death on March 8, Justice Orji-Abadua was the presiding...
By NGUHER KENDRA ITYOACHIMIN, from Bournemouth – Nigeria is Africa’s most populous black nation, a country with a rich cultural heritage and diversity, it has a population of over 200 million people, it boasts of 250 ethnic groups and about 500 distinct languages, Nigeria like many...
A former Defence Minister, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), on Friday appealed to Nigerians to stop killing each other and allow the country to make progress. Danjuma made the appeal at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Nwonyo International Fishing and Cultural Festival at Ibi, in Taraba. The retired...
Seven days after the ritual of cleansing, the flag waves around the temples, and dancers, singers, and drums invoke the presence of the Deities. Oweigbele–men of extraordinary powers with sacred unknown passwords as Akparans and kolokolowei stretched forth to pray at the waterfront and return to drop their...
By THEOPHILUS ABBAH – Not desperate, never agitated, not rebellious, not a mischief-maker, Chief (Architect) Gabriel Aduku exited this world of desperation, agitations, rebellion, and mischief on March 10, 2024, few weeks after his 80th birthday. He was an unexplored treasure to humanity, a rare human resource...