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Living
Onyeka Onwenu: I can’t believe you are gone! By Azuh Arinze
My first encounter with the no-nonsense and highly principled Elegant Stallion, Lady Onyeka Onwenu, MFR, is a great lesson on…
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Guest Columnist
Ken-Calebs Olumese at 80: An Extraordinary Showbiz Impresario, Mentor and Leader, By Ehi Braimah
When I arrived Lagos in 1988 after my NYSC in Awka, Anambra State, as a young graduate, I never knew…
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Adedeji Adeleke: A lesson in humility, By Idowu Olayinka
A Yoruba proverb states that ‘Iwa l’oba awure’. This roughly translates to ‘Good character is the harbinger of good fortune’.…
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Inside Nigeria
Ajulo’s Moving Tribute to Primate Solomon Niran Aluko, unblemished Ijesa; man of unmatched elegance, grace, and spiritual distinction
A Tribute To A Vintage Ijesha Man Of Unparalleled Elegance, Grace And Spiritual Distinction, His Eminence Primate Solomon Niran Aluko,…
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Inside Nigeria
Beyond satire: Columnist as moral compass, By Louis Odion, FNGE
Treacherous was the moment. Most editors got a whiff of the story but were either afraid or reluctant to publish.…
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Inside Nigeria
Wole Soyinka: Ahoy to a Mentor at 90, as I tell Some Stories, By Kayode Olagunju, PhD, mni
We had all gathered with excitement in our Federal Road Safety Commission branded white tee-shirts and shots in Abuja in…
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Inside Nigeria
If This Osita Chidoka’s Tribute to Ike Ekweremadu at 62 Doesn’t Move You, Nothing Will
Ike Ekweremadu: My Friend and the Global Leader at 62 We met in 1997; you came to pick me up…
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Inside Nigeria
Sidi Ali: A Veteran Journalist from a Northern Media Family, By Gidado Y. Shuaib
“Zamu Daura ma auren dole!” Hajiya Hakama Sidi Ali thundered over the phone after I answered her call. In Hausa,…
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Frank Kokori: The Struggle and The Rest of Us, By Osa Director
It is always emotionally draining and physically incapacitating to write about failed dreams and shattered great expectations. In essence, perpetual…
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Living
Yetunde Oladeinde: The Pen Never Dries, By Shola Oshunkeye
It’s a chilling paradox that the earthly remains of Mrs. Yetunde Omolara Oladeinde, nee Francis, were returned to mother earth…
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