Tribute

By Dele Layiwola EMERITUS Professor JP Clark, as he is well known; a foremost poet laureate will be sorely missed by his friends, associates and critics as well. What is …

(For J.P. Clark) By Evelyn Osagie Under murky waters Gloomy brotherhood Baptised our foreheads Raised to the solemn seashore We race naked Like bruised casualties Bearing marks of hatred, pain …

(A tribute to J.P. Clark) ‘Ibadan running splash of rust and gold-flung and scattered among seven hills like broken china in the sun.’                                         – J.P. Clark. OVER a decade …

By Idris Amali MY first encounter with Prof J.P. Clark was in 1968 at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. I can’t remember, I think he came from …

A tribute by Tunde Kelani IT took me a few days to finally come to terms with the passing of Chief Jimoh Aliu, whose real name is ‘Mr Drama,’ who without …

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — here in her chambers during a 2019 interview with NPR’s NINA TOTENBERG — died on Friday at the age of 87. JUSTICE Ruth …

WHEN Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, announced that he tested positive to Covid-19, the last thing on my mind was his death because of …

THE news came like a bolt out of the blue on a Sunday morning. Ibidun, wife of Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, had passed away in Port Harcourt in the early hours …

By Ehi Braimah IT‘s been raining lately in Lagos but when it rained last Tuesday morning, the feeling was quite different. Something was clearly amiss. The downpour had an unusual …