Lekan Alabi

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,…

On Sunday,17th March,1985,my family,on his invitation,visited the late Basorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola,GCFR,better known as MKO,at his Ikeja,Lagos State home. MKO,my mentor,who preferred introducing my humble self as his “friend…

Today, the late Alhaji AbdulAzeez Arisekola Alao, CON, the first Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Aare of Ibadanlandand the Vice – President of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA)…

26 years ago, exactly on 19th May 1996, the Sunday Times of Nigeria newspaper, and some other weeklies published my article of the above title, even though I had originally…

Even though Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo,first class mathematician, engineer, philosopher, with and a former Governor of old Oyo State, was, unfortunately,indisposed to Chair, as previously scheduled,my 70th birthday celebration held…