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Obasanjo, Balewa, Mandela, others nominated for leadership awards

Ihesiulo Grace 14 August 2021 0

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Ghana president, Nana Akuffo-Addo and Mahamad Ennaceur, former interim President of Tunisia have been nominated for the African leadership award. Also nominated for Posthumous Elites Heroes are the first prime minister of Nigeria,

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Community faults former Senator’s comments on Tafawa Balewa, want return of LG headquarters

Ihesiulo Grace 2 June 2021 0

By Bauchi Luka, Bauchi A Socio- cultural organization known as Zaar Development Association (ZDA) has faulted the recent call by former Senator, Adamu Ibrahim Gumba that the local government headquarters of Tafawa Balewa be relocated to Zwall from Bununu instead of Tafawa Balewa town where it was constitutionally sited since its creation in 1976. The […]

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Remembering Tafawa Balewa The Golden Voice Of Africa

Ihesiulo Grace 26 April 2020 0

A couple of days ago, I watched an enchanting 27-minute video of the July 1961 U.S. visit of Nigeria’s first Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and couldn’t help feeling a surge of spine-tingling emotion. The video not only took me on an exciting time travel to the 1960s when the enormous hopes invested in Nigeria by the […]

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Wife to first prime minister of Nigeria, Tafawa Balewa is dead

Ihesiulo Grace 28 October 2019 0

Bauchi – Hajiya Jummai Abubakar, the last surviving wife to late Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, is dead A grand daughter to the late prime minister, Hajiya Hajara Yakubu Wanka,confirmed the death of Hajiya Jummai in a telephone interview on Sunday night. Hajara disclosed that the deceased, aged 85, died at 4pm […]

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Dogara to seek re-election, silent on party’s platform

Ihesiulo Grace 12 September 2018 0

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday accepted his constituents request to re-contest for the Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency of Bauchi State even as he was silent on which party’s platform he would contest the 2019 general elections. Addressing hundreds of his constituents who thronged his Abuja home, the Speaker said