Lekan Alabi

Whereas I witnessed the installation of the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo (Generalissimo)of Yorubaland, the late Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, GCON, then the Premier of Western Nigeria, in Oyo Town in…

Ambassador Ibironke Adefope,a former Nigerian High Commissioner to Zambia and Malawi,clocks 70 years tomorrow, Wednesday,23rd February 2022. Praise be to God Almighty. Born on 23rd February,1952,in Ibadan,Oyo State of Nigeria,her…

•Oloye LEKAN ALABI Writes About Him Today, 31st December 2021, about the last of Nigeria’s iconic society photographers, Pa. David Owolabi Ositelu, better known as “Born Photo”, will be buried…

Preliminary talks on the burial arrangements of the late  Ibadan-based iconic photographer, Pa David Owolabi Ositelu, better known and called “Born Photo”, started this afternoon at a meeting held in…

Come Friday, 22nd October 2021, it will be 27 years that Nigeria and Africa’s pioneer radio DJ, Mr Louis Tunji Marquis died in the USA, aged 52. May his valiant…

In the public opinion survey conducted by me on Nigerian artistes and published in my column, “IT’S WHAT’S HAPPENING BY ‘LEKAN ALABI” in the Sunday Sketch newspaper issue on 29th…

Today, Thursday,12th August 2021, we celebrate our 43rd wedding anniversary. Solemnised on Saturday,12th August 1978, at the Saint John’s Wood Anglican Church, Hampstead, Lord’s Roundabout, London, NW8, United Kingdom, our…

Within a period of 51 years, I have either reported, danced, or have one thing or the other to do with world-renowned juju music icon, Chief Commander, Professor(Evangelist) Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi,…

•Published In The GUARIAN Newspaper Issue Of JULY 20, 2014 Nobel Laureate Professor ‘Wole Soyinka was 80 years old on Sunday July 13, this year (2014). We congratulate the literary…

Monday, 22nd March, 2021, marked the 23rd remembrance anniversary of the late Brigadier-General Sasaeniyan Adedeji Oresanya, a former Military Governor of old Oyo State of Nigeria.He died on Sunday,22nd March,1998,…