Tribute

Except for the few astronauts who died in space, no one has ever left this planet alive. So it was with Muhammed Ali, the greatest boxer in history and one of the greatest sportsmen of […]

Yoruba actor and movie producer, Prince Jide Kosoko, has lost one of his wives, Henrietta Kosoko. Henrietta, who was also an actress, was said to have died at the Sacred Heart Catholic Hospital, Lantoro, Abeokuta […]

My generation, by which I mean the generation which came into political and social consciousness in the 1960s, was lucky in the sense that we had many real heroes, men and women from whom we […]

Muhammad Ali’s brother has taken centre stage at a Sunday worship service at the church where their father was a longtime member in Louisville, Kentucky. An emotional Rahaman Ali clapped and swayed to hymns and […]

This is dedicated to one of the greatest Africans that ever lived. A few hours ago, news broke that the incomparable Muhammad Ali, the boxer who flew like a butterfly, stung like a bee has […]

Muhammad Ali, the iconic three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who died Friday, had recently shunned the public spotlight he once seemed to revere. His last known appearance was at a Parkinson’s fundraiser April 9 in […]

The death of Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight champion known as much for his political activism as his boxing brilliance, triggered a worldwide outpouring of affection and admiration for one of the best-known figures of […]

Muhammad Ali was, at his peak, arguably the most famous man on the planet. His prodigious boxing talent was matched only by a towering self-belief. “I am the greatest,” he said, and who could doubt […]

This Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the martyrdom of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. She did not volunteer her life to be ended by the assassin’s bullet. Rather they killed her because they believed that she […]

The posters were pasted all over Lagos Island, holding suspense only to the uninformed yet, confirmation to political insiders. On the blue background were the bold white letters ‘Prince of Hope’ every tree, every board, […]

I wrote the first book on Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III, Soun of Ogbomosoland in 1995, 21 years ago and in spite of the age difference of 27 years and the staggering difference in our […]

General Conrad Dibia Nwawo from all accounts was a soldier’s soldier. Accounts of his numerous exploits as part of the United Nation’s Peacekeeping forces in Katanga, Congo, led by General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi are legendary. His […]

My dear Auntie, Madame Elizabeth Laaka Orage, quietly passed away on February 23 and was buried on Friday May 13 in Bomu in Gokana Local Government, Ogoni, Rivers State. A renowned beauty with a vivacious […]

WE were not too many, but Pas­tor Dimgba Igwe who would have been 60 on May 16, 2016, would not have wanted it any better way: a room filled with his family, my fam­ily, close […]

One notable aspect of change would be to look back at the glorious past of the famous Government College Ibadan, not as history, dead and buried, but as a season of wisdom and positive lessons […]

That might Brand Shonekan have been today, had Chief Ernest Shonekan, who just turned 80, not strayed into the quicksands of Nigerian politics, graveyard of too many a reputation?

Seventy years ago, on May 7, 1946, Herbert Macaulay, the acclaimed nationalist widely acknowledged as the ‘Father of Nigerian Nationalism’, made his exit at age 81. He was born in Lagos on November 14, 1864. […]

The remains of late Prince Ademola Adeniji-Adele will be buried at Abari Cemetery, Lagos Island, on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, according to family sources. Prince Adeniji-Adele, who passed on last Thursday, May 5, in an Indian […]