Passage

She died at the National Hospital, Abuja, on Wednesday morning. Mariama, wife of the Chairman of the National Conference, Idris...

It feels so strange to be writing an obituary for a serial obituarist. Kaye Whiteman, who died on 17 May...

The death of Kaye Whiteman, the well-known journalist and author was announced 17th May, he was 78 years old. In announcing...

So I finally caved in to reality. I garnered the courage to look at the photos we took together, again…...

Segun Okeowo led the 'Ali must go' protest. A former president of the National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, Segun...

Iyetade Verity Soyinka, daughter of Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, who passed on in Ibadan three days after Christmas 2013, will...

The deceased was a former justice of the Supreme Court. The body of late retired Justice of the Supreme Court,...

Everyone who has encountered Festus Iyayi can attest to it that, to be true to one another was a cardinal...

Last night, at ten minutes to nine o’clock South African time, Nelson R. Mandela, popularly known as Madiba died. As...

And the stone word fell Upon my still living breast. Never mind, I was prepared for this. Somehow, I shall...

In Ibadan, any politician or anybody desirous of comprehending the political compass of the state must read his typically detailed...

This weekend was the burial of our dear Comrade BABA Oluwide Omojola who died on October 19th at the age...

May strikes become the remotest of weapons and least employed. The name Festus Iyayi symbolises struggle for academic freedom, democratisation...

It is with the deepest sense of loss but in total submission to the will of the Almighty God that...

Death is inevitable. It is however, not the terminal end of man’s life, but the beginning of a journey into...

The Ghanaian poet and diplomat, Kofi Awoonor, was one of the fifty-nine people murdered last month in Nairobi by Islamist...

Nigeria's former military Vice President, Mike Akhigbe, is dead, his elder brother, Alemon Akhigbe told the News Agency of Nigeria...

As a form of greeting, the question was intriguing. Whenever Frank Olusola Macaulay asked, “How are you, today?” he laid...

He was a distinguished bearer of many titles, notably Knight of Saint Mulumba, Grand Knight Emeritus, Udora Umuchu etc. Chief...

Nigeria is certainly passing through a dark phase in its history. From the wheeler-dealers that are called businessmen milking the...

As Nigeria prepared to finally cede control of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula in August 2013, one of the principal actors...

Mr. Awolowo reportedly died in a foreign hospital on Wednesday evening. Oluwole Bolade Akanni Awolowo, scion of the powerful Awolowo...

The death of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian man of letters and widely acknowledged pioneer of African literature, has brought an...

When I first met him in the mid-1980s, he was a fashion statement personified. He always wore a pair of...

Mr. Ogungbe set up and supervised the 50:50 company to capture the early filmic phase of today’s corridor of the...