‘This gentleman I have known for more than half his life deserves a trophy: he puts in long hours of hard and smart work, and he’s living his dream. He …
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Photoshoot…Photographer @insignia @kolaoshalusiCreative director Betty IraborStyling/wardrobe @mynestfrica As I step into a new biological year, I remember James Taylor’s song and I just couldn’t hold back the memories that overwhelmed …
‘Throughout his public service, Olisemeka was known as a man of very strong principles, and could, in the estimation of some, be regarded as self-opinionated or cocky. He often stuck …
IT was sometime in 1982, at SCOATRAC premises in Lagos on a hot workday afternoon. I was just 20. I was a security guard under a private security firm, George …
‘I think of Prof Akinyemi at 80, not as a lion in winter, crouching, doing nothing except ruing the past. No, instead I see the noble, sagacious, fierce and warlike …
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The indefatigable Dr Newton Jibunoh: The environmentalist still going strong @84
‘As we prepare to join the beautiful family of Dr Jibunoh to celebrate him and mark, yet another birthday, I would like to use this opportunity to call on the …
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Sola Olorunyomi: Diamond for the humane scholar, social philosopher
by Naija Timesby Naija Times(Being adaptation of the text of a citation on Professor Sola Olorunyomi, who clocks 60 today, November 28, 2021. Citation written by Dr. James Yeku, under the title: Sola Olorunyomi; …
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What does it take to be Aderemi Raji-Oyelade: A poet-scholar and a prophet in camera?
Preface IN the beginning was the word and the word was without walls that separated thoughts from deeds. On the seventh phase and in several places a city in text …
INDUSTRY? Yes, but also no! No, in a positive sense I should quickly say, for FAJ – Femi Akintunde Johnson – is actually an industry. It is tempting to describe …
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Joke Silva@60… ‘What more can I possibly ask for? I am grateful to God for His grace and mercies’
IT has been a rain of tributes for the world-class stage and screen actress and producer Ajoke Silva-Jacobs since she clocked 60 on Wednesday September 29. Messages have continued to …