Tribute

In the annals of professionalism, only a few people have been able to successfully combine many disciplines. Prince Tony Momoh, who is now 80 years old, is one of them. He has made giant strides […]

The late Chief Gani Fawehinmi would have been 81 today. His birth anniversary was, last year, marked with two major events. The Lagos State Government unveiled a new statue to immortalise him at Ojota Park. […]

One of Nigeria’s foremost and famous writers, poets and novelists, Dr Gabriel Okara, hs died at the age of 98. Okara, who is from Boumadi, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa, died at Federal […]

I must have met Matron Odeli for the first time in 1971, as a budding Medical Student in my first Paediatric Clinical Posting at the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos (MEDILAG). After […]

Re-committing himself to the service of God and the state, Governor Ugwuanyi declared: “Now is the time to get back to work. We are inspired by the sacrifices and support of our people in renewing […]

Let Nigeria’s politicians learn from Pius Adesanmi that what we need from them isn’t their Methuselah’s life in office. We are not interested in their barren longevity in power. We are for a brief stay […]

Death, captured in a box suspended in mid-air Slowly ascending to land on a rock too far to see. The phantom is bold Killing the scion of creativity and talent A Fallen Branch None of […]

Beyond the oratorical tributes of the obsequies, the greatest tribute to the memory of our beloved Pius will be for Nigeria’s clan of pen warriors to continue his struggle for a better Nigeria through the […]

Pius Adesanmi, Carleton University’s Professor of literature and African studies who died in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash near the town of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on Sunday, March10, was a consummate intellectual and civic activist. […]

“Off to Nairobi in the morning for a week Baba. I hope you have left Nigeria. Sadly, I am not transiting through London this time” that was Pius’s last message to me on the direct […]

“I am at an age now where I should be confident that, should anything happen to me and I quit this realm eternally, somebody like you would go out of your way to find Tise […]

Pius was a gift to generations. His writing, intellect, humanity, sense of humanity and the duty of care he exercised over people, Nigeria, the continent and even further is beyond compare… He has taken on […]

When, on returning home from my Sunday morning football game, an exercise I’m super regular in, on March 10, 2019, I surfed through the social media to see news of a crash involving a Nairobi-bound […]

A former Chief of Army Staff, David Ejoor, is dead. Mr Ejoor was army chief between 1971 and 1975 during the Yakubu Gowon military regime. Mr Ejoor was Urhobo from Delta State. Already, Governor Ifeanyi […]

Ethno-religious leanings or socio-political ideology notwithstanding, it is almost improbable for any society to underestimate the contributions of some people to the emancipation of its people and the realization of the dream of its founding […]

By Bashorun J.K. Randle For me the death of Professor Olufemi Williams was a huge shock. I was invited by phone on a Saturday morning: “Please come and see Prof urgently” only to be confronted […]

Almost 35years after he was overthrown from power, former President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari answered his final call last month. He was 93. He was the most prominent link between the first and second republic. […]

The last time I saw Chief Bernard Uwadinisu Onyenokwe was several years ago. I had driven from Port Harcourt straight to his house in Effurun, near Warri. He was expecting me because we had spoken […]