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He came to the UN with an agenda for peace, and indeed grew the UN Peace Corps. But his tenure was determined by four wars which were also responsible for his being the only UN […]

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former UN secretary general , has died aged 93, the UN Security Council has said. He died at a Cairo hospital on Tuesday, Egypt’s state news agency said, after being admitted with […]

The Oyo-Yoruba people, the group from which Chief Akintola hails, are now Oyo and Osun states and one wonders how Chief Akintola would have greeted this news. For in spite of all the efforts made […]

BEKO Ransome-Kuti was the  unarmed general of the people who led them in countless campaigns against the perpetuation of military rule and for the enthronement of democracy. In the course of  those struggles, he was […]

EVEN before I had sat in the same classroom with Professor Biodun Jeyifo (BJ to his legion of friends and admirers), I regarded him as my teacher. He had been instrumental to my arrival at […]

I take the title of this essay from a passage in one of 20th century’s most controversial, if seminal, novels. Chinua Achebe called the author of Heart of Darkness “a thorough-going racist.” He might be […]

It’s a day in British tradition dedicated to opening boxes of gifts received at Christ­mas, and that is why it’s called Boxing Day. But what the Adesina family got this last December 26 was a […]

The first week of January, witnessed an august celebration of Sir Steve Omo­jafor, executive chairman of STB-McCann who turned 70 years old. The birthday man clocked a new age in the New Year. A series […]

IT was early evening on Monday, August 7, 1995. I was hurrying to meet an appointment with one of the shining stars of Nigeria’s advertising industry. I took a cab from the Maryland area to […]

Cancer, be not proud! Olabisi Ibijoke Olateru-Olagbegi (nee Cole) lived a life of meaning, purpose and impact. As she joins the Saints triumphant on Friday, January 29, all we have to say is: Thank You, […]

The funeral celebration for the mother of our nation, Chief (Mrs) Hannah Dideolu Awolowo, commenced in Ikenne on Sunday, November 15. It includes daily events until Wednesday November 25 (the centenary of Mama’s birthday), when […]

ABEOKUTA—After 10 days of burial activities in honour of Mrs. HID Awolowo, the late matriarch of the Awolowo family,  she was interred yesterday, around 1:45 pm beside her husband, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The interment […]

The Ogun State government has named the state-owned Model School in Ikenne and Plain Fields Estate, Abeokuta after the late Mrs. Hannah Idowu Dideolu (HID) Awolowo.. The Model School and Plain Fields Estate are being […]

Abubakar Audu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 21 governorship election of Kogi state, died on Sunday afternoon after reportedly suffering stroke twice. A family source confirmed this to TheCable. Audu […]

Peter, not Peter the Apostle, but Peter, the Hero of High Walpole’s Novel entitled ‘FORTITUDE’, said “It is not life that matters, but the courage you bring to it”. It was part of Chief Obafemi […]

The Book of Proverbs is especially important for the wealth of knowledge and universal principles of life that it contains. Many, if not all, of the proverbs present readers with core knowledge about life and […]

The Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has warned politicians that the legacy left behind by the late Premier of the old Western Region and founder of the Unity Party of Nigeria, Chief […]

The remains of the Awolowo matriarch, Mrs. Hannah Idowu Dideolu (HID) Awolowo, arrived at the Park Lane, Apapa, Lagos home of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, for the beginning of the 11-day funeral rites. […]

The world joins the children of Chief Dr Mrs HID Awolowo the Yeye Oodua and the undisputed and indisputable Asiwaju Yoruba as they send forth their illustrious Matriarch on her journey in the Continuum on […]

In recent times, many eminent Nigerians have crossed the great divide between the living and those who now belong to the ages. No matter how old our loved ones may be, we do not want […]