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Hardly a day passed without the late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari and I exchanging calls or WhatsApp messages. I never failed to forward negative comments I received about him and he took them as graciously as he took my criticisms of the government he served. But three weeks ago, his response to my post was ... Read More »

The Convener of pro-democracy group, Concerned Nigerians has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to come out of hiding and lead from the front the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic that has claimed many lives and rendered many jobless. The convener in a press statement made available to newsmen, enjoined the president to show leadership in this trying times. “The President needs ... Read More »

If the late Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, were a citizen of a western country, his obituary would have been written at least 10 years ago in anticipation of his eventual death. Like most famous people and highly placed public officials, his obituary would have been extensively researched, written with as much objectivity as can be managed, ... Read More »

With the lockdown, the number of domestic/sexual violence has increased in Lagos. the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team has revealed that the number of domestic and sexual abuse cases being reported daily has increased since the Coronavirus lockdown started in Lagos. According to the response team, before the lockdown they received 8 cases of domestic abuse daily ... Read More »

The attention of the Lagos State Ministry of Education has been drawn to the plans by some private schools in the State to resume academic activities for the third term of the 2019/20 session by online teaching. This is with effect from Monday, 27th April, 2020. As we are already aware, the State is presently on lockdown imposed by the ... Read More »

There is a saying in the Yoruba tradition to the effect that death translates ordinary mortals into idols. I do not know the exact sense in which progenitors of the tradition meant it, but this can be construed in two ways, at least. The first but more improbable is the spiritual. In Yoruba cosmology, the dead are believed to have ... Read More »

President of the Nigerian Bar Association, ( NBA ) Paul Usoro, SAN has mourned the passing of Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN – an icon of the legal profession and a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association. Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN passed away in the early hours of Tuesday, the 21st day of April, 2020. He was 88. Chief Akinjide, ... Read More »

Mallam Abba Kyari, a notoriously popular name since he was appointed PMB’s Chief of Staff, has passed on to the great beyond, put to the ground as soon as he died, in one piece of cloth, at Gudu cemetery; according to Islamic rights – contrary to some opinion that he had passed away at least two weeks before. The most ... Read More »

The National Leader of the APC, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has commiserated with family members and associates of Chief Willie Anumudu on the death of the businessman. Anumudu, Chairman of Globe Motors Ltd., died in Lagos on April 21. Tinubu, in a condolence message, by his media aide, Mr Tunde Rahman, described Anumudu as a prominent businessman, reputed for his industry ... Read More »

Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Kano State governor Kano State Government has revealed on Wednesday that it has applied for N15b from the Federal Government to fight the coronavirus pandemic. This was disclosed bythe state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, during a television programme ‘Politics Today’ aired on Channels Television and monitored by Daily Trust. The governor stated that the state had ... Read More »