People in Action
This story has to be expanded to correct and accommodate errors that readers have written to point out. From Jos comes the caller who said Intervention had killed Dr. Garba Nadama who took o... Read more
She has not struck the gold or carted away that huge number of medals yet but she is on her way. When you encounter her, you encounter a bundle of potentials in one person. She is a sports q... Read more
Unlike today, there were 19 governors in the Second Republic in Nigeria, 1999 – 1983. Of the 19, only two are now alive. 17 others have died, making it a case of how time flies. The be... Read more
It seems to be a season of death for a particular tribe of musicians in South Africa. It is a tribe in the sense that, though just the two of them, they all died within days of each other in... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja There can be no surpassing the great book in putting it: there is a time to be born and a time to die. Bayero University, Kano’s Prof Dahiru Yahya is dead and gone to meet hi... Read more
Perhaps, lost in her own troubles, Nigeria has not been able to catch on with the death of Jonas Gwangwa, South African jazz musician and anti-apartheid fighter. But the BBC did not miss it,... Read more
Ghanaians witnessed the burial of Jerry Rawlings today. Trying to capture the soul of personality of late Ghanaian leader vis-à-vis Ghana’s standing today is what the author of this piece wh... Read more
It must mark the complexity of the United States that such a country filled with variants of Bill O’Reilly, notorious for spreading violent taxonomies of international politics or what... Read more
Larry King, legendary American interviewer, conversationalist and television chat host, has succumbed to Covid-19 at the age of 87. A long time face of American electronic media space, King... Read more
Death can be constructed. Or, death is constructed. Death that is not mourned may be real but still of no meaning or significance. So, mourning is death constructivism – making sense of a pa... Read more
