A former Vice President of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme is dead. A statement from his family signed by his brother and the traditional ruler of Oko in Anambra State, Igwe Laz Ekwueme said that he died by 10:00pm in a London clinic, Sunday. The statement in full read, “The Ekwueme family regrets to announce […]
Lt. General Victor Malu, a former Nigerian Chief of Army Staff who served under President Olusegun Obasanjo, died at the age of 70 this morning. Gen. Malu, according to a family source, Bem Adoor, died at a Cairo, Egypt hospital where he had traveled to for normal medical check-up two weeks ago. The former ECOMOG […]
Ahmadu Bello University, Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS) was a beehive of intellectualism in the 1980s. Around that period, relatively young academics like Raufu, Jibo, Siddique, Alkassum Salihu Bappa, et al, were part of generation of scholars that shaped and are still shaping the lives of many of us. By the time I […]