Tag: tribute
Private Burial For Mandela
South Africans queued Friday for a final chance to say a personal farewell to Nelson Mandela, with some camping overnight…
Mandela: Maigari Condoles South Africa FA
President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has commiserated with his South African counterpart, Dr. Danny Jordaan over the…
Mandela’s Lying In State Begins
Nelson Mandela’s flag-draped casket made a solemn journey through the streets of Pretoria Wednesday, arriving at the seat of South…
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela: Freedom At Last
By Tayo Ogunbiyi “Our nation has lost its greatest son.” With these words, South African President, Jacob Zuma, announced the…
I Didn’t Love Mandela At First Sight —Widow
Nelson Mandela’s widow Graca Machel, has disclosed that her first encounters with the global icon cannot be described at love…
Obama: Mandela A Giant Of History
“It is hard to eulogize any man … how much harder to do so for a giant of history, who…
World Leaders Bid Mandela Farewell
Tens of thousands of South Africans united in proud, noisy celebration Tuesday at a rain-soaked emotional memorial service to global…
Mandela greatest inspiration for oppressed, says Jonathan
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed sadness over the death of former South African President, Dr. Nelson Mandela. In a…
NFF Mourns Eaglets Star, Njengo
Nigeria’s football family was thrown into mourning on Tuesday after news filtered in that former Golden Eaglets’ defender, Friday Njengo,…
Jonathan Mourns Sekibo
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has sent a condolence message to the family and associates of Senator Tari Sekibo, president of…
A Unique Brand —A Tribute To Baba Omojola
By E. C. Ejiogu If Baba Omojola were a commercial product, the most appropriate pitch-line in the marketing campaign to…
Fashola, Others Pay Tribute At 10th Fidau For K.O. Tinubu
Tributes poured forth on Sunday for the late Patriarch of the Tinubu Family, Alhaji Kafaru Oluwole Tinubu, as relatives, friends…
Northern Governors’ Forum Salutes Gowon At 79
The Northern States Governors’ Forum has paid tribute to a former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, as he attains…
Atiku Condoles Fashola, Wishes Tinubu Quick Recovery
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condoled with the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, over the death of…
‘Mogaji Was More Than A Mother-In-Law To Me’
The lawmaker representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has showered encomium on the late President/Iyaloja General, Alhaja Abibat…
Adieu, Abibat Mogaji
The demise of Alhaja Abibat Mogaji, MFR, MON, president-general, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, on 15 June, is,…
The Achebe I knew
By Chido Onumah “Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par…
Adunni: The Journey Of An Accidental Politician
By Babafemi Ojudu “Femi, you have come again with your jokes,” she said on that faithful afternoon when I invited…
‘I Just Wanted To Hear Your Voice’
By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Moremi Ajasoro. Afi ikoko ide bu omi lamu. Afi Kankan fadaka soge lawujo egbe. Moremi ti ewure ile…
Tribute To Funmi Olayinka: Beautiful Inside And Outside
By Funso Adegbola My heart grieved when I heard the sad news of the passing of the Deputy Governor of…
Eulogies To An Icon
Movie stars recently paid their last respect to Chief Justus Esiri, a septuagenarian theatre legend who passed away in the…
A Courageous Political Amazon
P.M.NEWS editorial on the transition of Mrs Funmilayo Olayinka Funmi Olayinka, deputy governor, Ekiti State continues to receive accolades even…
Soyinka, Others Mourn Ekiti Deputy Gov
More Nigerians on Sunday condoled with Governor Kayode Fayemi, and the people of Ekiti on the demise of the state…
Jonathan leads tributes for Oshiomhole on 60th birthday
President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated Nigeria’s Edo State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, who marks his 60th birthday today. Jonathan said…
Chinua Achebe: A Writer And A Half And More
By Akin Adesokan He sits there in the front row, looking baffled by the effusion of encomiums falling all around…
Achebe And I
By Nduka Otiono No one who met the venerable Chinua Achebe–in flesh and blood or in his writings–would ever forget…
Achebe’s Apocalyptic Valediction
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Chinua Achebe appeared on the world stage in grand style by way of the epochal novel,…
Achebe Is Africa’s Shakespeare
By Festus Ayayi I knew Chinua Achebe in the early 80s when he was President of Association of Nigerian Authors…
Curtain-Call For The Eagle
By Tunde Olusunle Over the years, Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo and I have had the good fortune of regularly hosting a good…
The Passing Of A Literary Troubadour
By Wale Okediran Like many Nigerian students, who offered Literature in secondary school, I first met Achebe on the pages…