Browsing: Tony Iyare

Different classes of people have now migrated back to the use of the very clean and alluringly beautiful trains. We left the Babatunde Fashola station, Agege by 8.30am and were at the Ladoke Akintola station, Omi Adio in Ibadan by 10.30am. We had a two minute stop at Funmilayo Ransome Kuti station,

He was named along with other outstanding journalists, Ovation Publisher, Dele Momodu, Publisher, Africa Today, Kayode Soyinka and Ladi Ayodeji, managing director, BMG Promotions, having garnered overwhelming votes from readers of the international newspaper, Naija Standard, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. 

Though I greatly appreciate the concerns of self determination advocates and believe that only policies genuinely ensconced in justice, equity and fairness rather than some empty rhetorics on unity can take the wind beneath their sail, unwittingly, I may be a victim if Nigeria crumbles as a country.

Relaying how one of the female professors at the University of Lagos proposed at a senate meeting that since professors deliver “Inaugural Lectures” to herald their height of academic attainment soon after their appointment, Oyebode said it was the lady’s view that they should also render an “Exogural Lecture” at their point of exit.  

Padeola Aderibigbe, 81, hardly betrays the looks of his four scores. Still radiating some glimpses of his very active youthful years, his well honed delivery roused many participants who had become a bit dozy after a sumptuous lunch of pounded yam with vegetable soup. “I’m blessed with good health, I thank God for his grace”, he says with the gait of a man in his early 70s.