It was called an ‘Evening of Tributes’ and sobering tributes poured in from Washington DC, Nairobi, Switzerland, Kampala in Uganda, Dakar in Senegal and, of course, those who were on the gro... Read more
There is now a firm guarantee that what most occupied the late former Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria academic, Prof Okello Oculi would be preserved. The guarantee is the highlight of a condo... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura I received the shocking news of the passing of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan scholar who lived 48 years of his life in Nigeria, while I was on the train to Ottawa from Kingston... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki “The discovery of new values in life is a very chaotic experience; there is a tremendous amount of jostling and confusion and a momentary feeling of darkness. I let... Read more
Activists, Friends, Admirers to Memorialise Prof Abu Momoh, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem June 3rd, 2024
Activists, friends and admirers of the late Prof Abu Momoh as well as Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem have another opportunity to memorialise their departure. The memorial event for this year come... Read more
The Centre for Democracy and Development – West Africa (CDD) is operationalizing a Concept Note for a memorial event in honour of Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Prof Abubakar Momoh. The event... Read more
He was a spectacle at whichever head office of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) you met him, be it at Yaba in Lagos or at the Central Business District in Abuja. He wasn’t a sentry b... Read more
By Ike Okonta I have just finished reading David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of the African American intellectual and architect of the American Civil Rights Movement, Dr W.E.B. Du B... Read more
Several decades after the famous Mock OAU Summit series at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, students of the Anglican Girls Grammar School, Abuja are enacting a session again. The simulati... Read more
It is March 2nd, 2021 and the 125th anniversary of the battle of Adwa in 1896 where European/Italian forces were given the beating of their life by Ethiopian forces. It is appropriately an A... Read more
