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…
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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…
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•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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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FROM BABA OBEY IN I970, TO SON, TOLU OBEY, IN 2021…..ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER
by Lekan Alabi August 11, 2021Within 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,…
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•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…
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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,…