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Twenty-four hours after the Managing Director of  Lekki Free Trade Zone, LFTZ, Mr. Tajudeen Disu, was murdered at Lekki, scores of sympathisers thronged his home to pay condolence to the wife, Dr. Folashade Disu, his […]

The tears have hardly dried as Dame Felicia Oluremi Oyo, former President of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, former media aide of President Olusegun Obasanjo and before her departure from earth a year ago this […]

Ese, the first son of the late Gamaliel Onosode, has said he is glad to have been able to fly his father back into the country 24 hours before his death. Onosode was flown in […]

The matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, Chief (Mrs) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, who died on Saturday, will be buried on her centenary birthday, November 25, her family disclosed yesterday. The eldest daughter of the deceased, […]

The Obafemi Awolowo Foundation has concluded plans to inaugurate a foundation in memory of the late Mrs. Hannah Dideolu Awolowo in recognition of her contributions to family values, entrepreneurship and perseverance in the face of […]

The matriarch of the Awolowo family, HID Awolowo, who passed away Saturday, started preparing for her death 20 years ago, her daughter said. Tokunbo Dosunmu-Awolowo told PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday at their Ikenne family home […]

The youngest daughter of the late HID Awolowo, Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, said her mother breathed her last in her arms on Saturday. She disclosed this on Sunday while talking to journalists at the Ikenne, country […]

The matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief (Mrs.) Hannah Dideolu Awolowo, fondly called HID, has passed on, aged 99. Announcing the demise, her eldest child, Omotola Oyediran, in a   statement   she signed on behalf of the […]

The prestigious Ikoyi Club 1938 and one of Nigeria’s foremost Family membership Clubs will on September 28, 2015, roll out the drums to celebrate Seventy-Seven (77) years of the Club existence. This was made known at […]

I was at the celebration that ushered Prof. JP Clark into the Octogenarian circle. I was told, and so many in my generation also, that JP was a lecturer in the Department of English, University of […]

It was the time of music and memorable melodies, of spellbinding lyrics from those earthy geniuses of the talking drum and percussionists of political palavers. There are certain images that are lodged in the consciousness […]

I have not quite found a way to manage my mobile phone, that ubiquitous affliction of the modern age. I used to leave the damned thing on with the volume at full blast round the […]

Billionaire businessman Antonio Oladehinde Fernandez who died on Tuesday in Bruessels Belgium has been described as “a happy and very reliable man,” by his daughter, Mrs. Teju Phillips. Mrs Phillips, a one-time Lagos State commissioner […]

Nigerian billionaire, Oluwo Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez (Garsan Fulanin Kano) is dead. He was aged 79 years. Announcing his demise in a tweet last night, Nigerian journalist/publisher, Dele Momodu, said: “Nigeria, and, indeed Africa, has just […]

President Barrack Obama of the United States on Friday said that the late Ambassador Adebowale Adefuye, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the country was the major pillar behind the mutual relationship that both country had enjoyed over […]

Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye, a historian who served as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States, has died in Washington, DC, SaharaReporters just learned. Mr. Adefuye died at a yet to be disclosed hospital in the US, […]

Kabiyesi or kabio kosi means nobody can query the decision of an Oba. This is to say the ruler is an omnipotent and powerful ruler whose actions are beyond question. Oba Waja means the king has escaped to the roof. This […]

Fellow Nigerians, let me confess that my trip to the ancient city of Ife last Thursday was a most harrowing experience. As a matter of fact, the drive itself was very smooth devoid of the […]

The announcement by the Ife Traditional Council of the transition to the ancestral realm of His Royal Majesty, Oba Okunade Sijuwade Olubuse II marked the end of a remarkable reign in Ile-Ife, the home of […]

The first time I saw Uncle Sam, it was on a football field in Enugu. It must have been in the 50s. We warmed to each other without anyone introducing us to each other. I […]