Ramaphosa hails Mandela’s heroics as South Africa celebrates 30th freedom anniversary
“On this day, we fondly remember Nelson Mandela, our first democratically elected president and the father of our democracy."
Becoming a man and a poet at the Nelson Mandela secretariat
When I was elected secretary-general of the students union at the University of Benin in 1987, I headed a secretarial named after Mandela. I do not know when the decision was taken to make Mandela the tutelary patron of our union whose struggles were mundane by comparison to the race-wide, all-of-humanity-embracing, cause that kept him underground for several years and eventually in prison for twenty-seven more.
Down memory-lane with Africa’s sit-tight presidents
AS we celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela, it is important to highlight what makes him so exemplary, especially on an African continent so bereft of good leadership. Why are there so few Nelson Mandelas in Africa?
Atiku honoured at Mandela’s burial, gets front-row seat
FORMER Vice President, Atiku Abubakar yesterday said he was humbled sitting on the front- row at both the state funeral and private burial ceremonies of former South Africa President, Nelson Mandela at his native home at Qunu, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape Province.
Fallout of OBJ’s Letter to GEJ: Corruption in Nigeria is a national tragedy —Jakande
Following the nagging issues in the polity, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, a former governor of Lagos State, bares his mind on the demise of Madiba, corruption, the education sector and leadership
Qunu, where Mandela got his English name “Nelson”
From the confines of apartheid prison and during the ill health that stalked his last years, Nelson Mandela yearned for the rolling hills and open spaces of his boyhood village of Qunu.
