NAF crash: ‘You didn’t say you wouldn’t return from Abuja’ — Bako’s partner
The partner of Flight Lieutenant I.S. Bako, one of the 25 people killed in Tuesday’s Nigerian Air Force aircraft crash in Igbokoda, Ondo State, has mourned the deceased officer in an emotional social media post. Joanna Yakubu, in a TikTok post on Tuesday, recalled her last conversation with Bako, a co-pilot aboard the ill-fated aircraft. […]
NCP Gubernatorial Candidate, 2003 and 2007
By Ogbeni Banjo Death will never cease to inflict its pains, pangs and anguish in our hearts. In my leader’s case, it forewarned us in the most disappointed way. When it eventually comes, it strikes with a painful scourge, leaving on its trail feelings of nostalgia, sorrow, inertia and forlorn hope, especially for a man […]
Gani: Exit of the Social Conscience
By Onyema Omenuwa When Chief FRA Williams, SAN, passed on some three years ago, Nigeria’s legal community lamented the closure of a definitive chapter of the country’s legal history. Significantly, such feeling of momentous loss is, unarguably, the highest tribute that could be paid to a lawyer in this part of the world, and it […]
The storm in the Senior Advocate of Nigeria cup (2)
The greatest humiliation I had as a junior lawyer was when one client asked my boss to please personally handle his matter… “why?†asked my boss.
What Gani has done for education, varsity students
A quintessentially brilliant, modest, committed, dedicated, enterprising and accomplished legal practitioner, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) who died last Saturday after a grim battle with lung cancer, meant different things to different people.
From Sudan with ‘new’ hearts filled with joy
The time was exactly 12:05 pm at the arrival hall of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos.
