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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 death of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, the Second Republic President, on Friday the 28th of December, 2018, after a brief illness, at the National Hospital, Abuja, has justifiably thrown the country into mourning […]

Although, often defined by the shenanigan of anonymity, the civil service remains the engine room of national development. Since 1960 when Nigeria jettisoned colonialism, the civil service has, more than any other sector of the […]

To most Nigerians born before the Nation’s Independence in 1960, as well as others interested in the political development of the country, the years and probably the months Nigeria lost five of its Heads of […]

As we mourn the passing of President Shehu Shagari, in a country like ours where our cultures prescribe that we do not speak ill of the dead, and where our past and recent histories are […]

It’s said that Nigerians hear news about Nigeria first from ‘the abroad’. In this case, it was true. My cousin, Ayotunde Obe, based in the UK, had early 24 December sent me a forwarded WhatsApp […]

It is in the interest of all Nigerians for the mystery of Badeh’s death to be unravelled. Although his life is no more important than the lives of others who have died in the same […]

All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described Nigeria’s first female doctorate degree holder in philosophy, Late Prof. Sophie Oluwole, as a distinguished academic. pan-African philosopher and Yoruba nationalist. Tinubu said late Oluwole […]

To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven, a time to be born, a time to die… Alex Sabundu Badeh was born into a family of peasant farmers […]

The name, Dr. Frederick Faseun would often spring up shades of thoughts and, of course, various inflections of emotion. That’s because he was a Nigerian who laid enduring foundations and legacies. These were legacies so […]

I didn’t want to write this week. It wasn’t writer’s block or the occasional frustration from sounding like a broken record. It was not the feeling of speaking to the Nigeria wall, either. Nothing of […]

The founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Federick Fasehun, is dead. The senior special adviser on media to Mr Fasehun, Adeoye Jolaosho, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He […]

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Saturday described the late Dr. Fredrick Fasehun as a renowned pro-democracy and good governance activist who left behind fine legacies. Fasehun, also […]

George Bush, the 41st president of the United States, has died at the age of 94. His death was announced by Jim McGrath, his spokesman but the cause was not disclosed. “George Herbert Walker Bush, […]

Among the army of poets that Africa boasts of, Ikeogu Oke is one of the new generation wordsmiths whose repertoire of poems will captivate the mind of the most critical aesthete. A writer and former […]

Ikeogu Oke, award-winning Nigerian poet, is dead. TheCable learned that Oke died on Saturday in Abuja. Until his death, he was receiving treatment at the National Hospital, FCT, for a yet to be ascertained ailment. […]

‘He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a Lion. He hath indeed, better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to […]