Today, eligible Nigerians in 29 out of the country’s 36 states go out to vote for candidates who will become the states governors.Voters will also elect members into the country’s…
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Olubadan of Ibadan, Kabiyesi Oba Saliu Adetunji,Aje Ogungunniso 1 Celebrates 3rd Coronation Anniversary
by Lekan Alabi March 4, 2019HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, OLUBADAN OF IBADANLAND, KABIYESI OBA SALIU ADETUNJI,AJE OGUNGUNNISO 1, TODAY CELEBRATES HIS THIRD CORONATION ANNIVERSARY ON THE EXALTED OLUBADAN THRONE Long live our revered King. May Kabiyesi’s…
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1983 GENERAL ELECTIONS: WHEN FEDECO DECLARED THE LATE GOVERNOR ‘BOLA IGE OF OLD OYO STATE A “FEMALE”!
by Lekan Alabi March 3, 2019Come Saturday, 9th March, this year (2019), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), shall, God willing, conduct Governorships and Houses of Assembly Elections in Nigeria. I pray for peaceful, free,…
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, 20th February 2019, it will exactly be 25 years ago that my article of the above title was published in The Guardian on Sunday newspaper issue of 20th…
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Had death not struck that Wednesday,18th June,2014,at his London,United Kingdom home,Alhaji AbdulAzeez Akanmu Arisekola Alao,C.O.N,would today have celebrated his 74th birthday. Born on Valentine’s Day (February 14th)1945,at his parents Adigun…
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27 years ago this month,exactly on Thursday, 6th February,1992,I delivered a lecture of the above title,at the Quarterly Lecture/ Luncheon of the Oyo State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of…
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AYANMO ‘O GBOOGUN – DESTINY CANNOT BE DERAILED, IT MAY BE DELAYED THOUGH – Oloye Lekan Alabi
by Lekan Alabi January 29, 2019It’s 35 years ago this month,that my humble self,and several thousands Nigerian public/civil servants,earlier dismissed/deployed/victimised for political reasons,were re-instated into our former posts,on the orders of the Generals Muhammadu Buhari/Babatunde…
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Although,”THESE STARS ARE SHOOTING AGAIN”,was the headline of my congratulatory article,published in The Comet (now transformed to The Nation) newspaper issue of Sunday,7th September,2003 (15 years ago last year September),when…
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Oloye Lekan Alabi Writes Tribute… True, a lioness she was – homemaker, protective mother, bold, strong, conquering, yet gentle with her cubs and very pretty and confident in her gait.…
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A lass, we all know, is a girl/young woman. Parents, particularly fathers, guardians, teachers, and relations dote on lasses who are pretty, brilliant, well-mannered and with great poise as future…