Tag: tribute
My conversations with Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe (1933-2020)
By Idowu Olayinka
My last physical meeting with him
Emeritus Professor Oladipo Olujimi Akinkugbe invited...
Adieu, Senator Ishaq Abiola Adeyemi Ajimobi, 1949-2020
By Idowu Olayinka
I first met with the late Senator Abiola Ajimobi sometime in 2004 at a private event...
TRIBUTE: My journey to the University of Ibadan in 1948
By Anezie Okoro
I belonged to the first set of Medical Students that moved to the University of Ibadan...
Remembering Amoloye thirteen years after
By Adesola Yaqub
“The whole essence of politics and leadership is in itself defeated, if the people do not have references to point at, as...
OBITUARY: Samuel Ade-Ali (1960-2019)
Samuel Ade-Ali is dead. Until his demise, he was a professor of African Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU),...
Anthony Asiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge
Emeritus Professor Anthony Asiwaju will, on 27th April, 2019 clock 80. In this piece, Professor Toyin Falola pays a tribute to the...
TRIBUTE: Femi Ojo-Ade (1941-2019)
By Niyi Afolabi
“You will always be my son, any day, no matter what!” Such were the re-assuring words of Professor Femi Ojo-Ade to me...
Ethiopian Airways plane crash: Nigeria born Canadian professor among victims
A Nigerian born Canadian professor, Pius Adesanmi was among the 157 people killed in Sunday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines passenger plane in Ethiopia.
Adesanmi,...
TRIBUTE: Professor Sophie Oluwole (1935-2018)
In this article, Kazeem Fayemi pays tribute to the late Professor Sophie Oluwole who died on Sunday evening.
Late Prof. Cordelia Agbebaku: Missed and never forgotten in AAU
Inwalomhe Donald recalls the times of late Professor Cordelia Agbebaku as the Vice Chancellor of the Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State. She died...
