By Keppy Ekpenyong Bassey AFTER service on Christmas day, my older sister had swung by the house as usual and without warning I blurted out Chico has passed on. She …
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By Toye Arulogun THE phone call about 6:14am early in the morning of Monday 31st November 2020 was very unusual. Tunde Muraina and i speak a minimum of five times …
By Alagi Saidy-Barro WE met at the TRRC. He heard me going off on someone who insisted on calling me “boss”, and Mr. Waggeh decided to start calling me “boss”. …
“Mr Lawal was a nice and easy-going person. I know this because I had worked closely with him and Dr Akpan on a number of assignments for almost four years; …
Mummy’s generosity was a treat By Akin Adeṣọkan MUMMY‘s treat was unfailingly prompt and generous. A plate of chin-chins and a bottle of Cocacola. On the few occasions that I …
By Toyin Akinosho Mama Mi! I HAVE written your biography twice over the last twenty years: for your 70th Birthday February 15, 1997 and the 80th anniversary, February 15, 2007. …
By Denja Abdullahi A COLOSSUS of pristine human relationship and interconnectedness is gone. He is (was) Mallam Salihu Mohammed Bappa, who until his demise yesterday (Wednesday) evening , was of …
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Chief Theophilus Adeleke Akinyele: The moral titan and his footprints
by Toyin Falolaby Toyin FalolaI WOKE up on Monday, October 26, 2020, and like every morning, had expected business as usual, especially from the ‘news sector.’ While hoping for a better tomorrow, my newsfeed …
GRIEF is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief …
This is to my family/ Do not take me to the mortuary/ Do not take me to a church,/ Whether in or out of town,/ But take me home to …