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Gen John Shagaya for Burial March 16th, 2018

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2018In: PeopleTags: Danburam Langtang 11, OFRNo CommentsViews:

Brig-Gen John Shagaya (rtd) who died on February 11th, 2018 is scheduled to be buried on March 16th, 2018. The burial space would be in Langtang in Plateau State from where he hails. The no... Read more

Okpani Ochiga, Unusual Statesman, Submits to Death

Posted By: adminon: February 12, 2018In: PeopleTags: Catholic Church, KTL Ltd, Marxism, NLC, Okpokwu LGCNo CommentsViews:

Death has occurred of Comrade Patrick Ameh Ochiga, a unionist, politician and community leader in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State. He gave up the ghost earlier this morning on t... Read more

Brigadier-Gen John Shagaya is Dead

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2018In: PeopleTags: ARDP, ECOMOG, NIPSSNo CommentsViews:

Pictures from the scene of the accident that killed Gen John Shagaya earlier today showed he could hardly have survived it. Again, a clear idea of what exactly happened is still difficult to... Read more

Here Comes NANS’ Wedding as First President, Chris Abashi, Marries Off Daughter

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2018In: PeopleTags: Fourth Republic Nigeria, NANS, Nasarawa EggonNo CommentsViews:

The witticism of the erstwhile Radio Kaduna Tiv soloist that the dead does not weep his own funeral cannot be over quoted. There is no superior text than it to apply in this case. For, if Ch... Read more

Tajudeen Abdulraheem: Epitaph for a Monument to the Struggle for Democracy in Africa

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2018In: PeopleTags: ARIB, IAA, Imperialism, JAM, Neo-colonialism, NGOs, NLC, Oxford, Pan-AfricanismNo CommentsViews:

Published originally as “The Taju Challenge” in May 2009 as a tribute to the departed, this piece serves as an appetizer to tomorrow’s inviting surgery on democracy that the Centre for Democ... Read more

What Ghanaian President Said at Hugh Masekela’s Burial in South Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2018In: PeopleTags: Addis Ababa, AU Summit, Keteke, NELSON MANDELANo CommentsViews:

Tribute by The President of the Republic Of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, At The Funeral Of Hugh Masakela, On Tuesday, 30th January, 2018, In Johannesburg, South Africa I had to come,... Read more

An Insight into Hugh Masekela, Fela’s Inspirer

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2018In: PeopleTags: Afrobeat, ANC, British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Dizzy Gillespie, Sharpeville Massacre, Soweto uprisingNo CommentsViews:

Written by Robin Denselow and published in The Guardian in the UK (Jan 23rd, 2018) as “Hugh Masekela Obituary” with a rider “Trumpeter and singer-songwriter who was a pioneer of jazz in Sout... Read more

Mrs Maureen Fateh, Courageous Cancer Fighter, Goes Home

Posted By: adminon: January 04, 2018In: PeopleTags: Ahmadu Bello University - Zaria, Cancer, Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Garki Specialist Hospital, International Conference Centre, Kaduna Capital School, NICON, Nigeria Law School, Queens College – YabaNo CommentsViews:

It is the another heart rendering story of a passage and the associated rites, this time for Mrs Maureen Mimidoo Fateh, (nee Tarka), a quintessential case of a quiet but noted successful cha... Read more

Abuja NOWA Educational Centre Loses Mr. Aondoaver Ugoh, Vice-Principal, (Administration)

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2017In: PeopleTags: Facebook, Gboko, Makurdi, NOWANo CommentsViews:

It was a case of temporary mental freeze for teachers and students of the Educational Resource Centre in Abuja, belonging to the Naval Officers Wives Association, (NOWA) as news of the insta... Read more

Ititi, Eehee!

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2017In: PeopleTags: Abuja Women Collective, NNDC, Och'Idoma, PhD, Sickle Cell Anaemia, USANo CommentsViews:

Dr Titi Omeche Ogiri is dead and gone to meet her maker. However, the totality of activities around her burial has made her departure a subject of reflections and questions. In Africa, it is... Read more