Regrets of Missed Moments: A tribute to Victor Onwusika

By Gabriel Airewele Sometime around noon on Wednesday, March 27th, 2024, I received a perfunctory message through WhatsApp from a friend with the words, "Is it true that this your classmate has died?" Blazoned above the message was a picture of Victor Onwusika, my former classmate, colleague, and friend. As I read the message,…

April 3, 20240Comments

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Mabel Aghaeze: An awesome lady to say the least…

By Phyllis Okenwa She was kind hearted. I admired her culinary skills. Almost everyone in ThisDay staff quarters back then has tasted her food. Their little apartment at that time was a testimony that home is not in the size but the spirit in it. Sunny, her husband always looked forward to going home. It…

March 22, 20240Comments

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Hurrah for Admiral Madueke! The cat with nine lives is 80 years old today

By Chuks Iloegbunam An Igbo saying goes like this: If a man’s chi (personal god) is not a party to the scheme, death will not kill him. On the morning of July 30, 1966, Midshipman Alison Madueke, boarded a KLM, Royal Dutch Airline plane for London, via Amsterdam. He was on his way to officer…

March 7, 20240Comments

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Wigwe: The man with the Midas touch

By Valentine Emeka Utulu We were just kids, running around, having fun, in September 1979, when I met Herbert Wigwe for the first time. Upon stepping foot in Federal Government College Warri, in the first term of my Form three, I found myself in School House, upstairs in room 8. In that room was Mba…

February 26, 20240Comments

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Odigba, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu

By Balogun Aderemi Adetokunbo Adetayo “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” - Hebrew Proverb Mr. Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, popularly known and called Aketi by friends and admirers, died in a hospital near Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany in the early hours of Wednesday, December 27, 2023 after a…

February 23, 20240Comments

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A deep hole of ache as my other father, Arc. Ngozi Innocent Okokwu (Barrister-at-Law) goes home today, 23 February 2024

By Sylvester Udemezue “His death brings new experience to my life – that of a wound that will not heal” - Ernst Jünger True friendship is one of the most important things we have in life. True friends are the siblings God forgot to give us; they are like diamonds, precious and rare. In the…

February 23, 20240Comments

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Prosecuting Our Convictions With Courage: A tribute to Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN (Aketi Baba)

By Ikeazor Ajovi Akaraiwe, SAN INTRODUCTION Warning. I may not be able to write about Aketi in the past tense. I had the good fortune of being First Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), when Aketi was NBA President (2008-2010). Our tenure commenced on my 46th birthday, August 29, 2008. I call it…

February 20, 20240Comments

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Telling Chizoba’s Story

By Ijeoma Nwogwugwu [email protected] Herbert Wigwe everyone knew, but not many knew the backbone behind his immense success. I called you Chiz Baby. Queenette Allagoa called you Chiz Burger. Most called you Doreen. I remember when you came back from the United States of America 31 years ago. You were just 26 years old, armed…

February 14, 20240Comments

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Herbert Wigwe: How could this be?

By Etim Etim How could such a fine gentleman, so generous, warm, humble and respectful die so violently with his wife, son and a friend? Why would such a visionary business leader, Godfearing and kindhearted human being perish so tragically? The United States aviation authorities should conduct full and detailed investigations into the helicopter…

February 13, 20240Comments

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#AFCON 2024: The lawyer who died on the pitch

Watch Video interview with late mum of Okwaraji I am a lawyer you know and signed to play football for certain conditions but I don’t think it included reselling my services to my country. You or your club cannot stop me from playing for my country. Let me tell you, I am going to represent…

February 5, 20240Comments

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