Few days after my promotion I got a message from LKJ from Lagos directing me to get ready for an assignment in Ile-Ife. It was a special lecture to be delivered by Chief Obafemi Awolowo

After his long engagement in enriching and enchanting encounters with history, Prince Edward Olajide Akinbiyi (1933-2021) has himself slipped into the annals, passing on at the age of 87

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, said the former governor of Lagos State, late Lateef Jakande was very honest and a progressive to the core

With the demise of Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande alias Baba Kekere, the Nigerian poor have lost a spokesman who thinks nothing but how to mitigate the devastating consequences of poverty including its sorrows

Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, Lagos State Area Unit and University of Lagos Muslim Alumni Association (UMA) have mourned elder statesman and first civilian governor of the state

Baba kekere. That was how they called him. Although Alhaji Lateef Jakande was his real name, the Baba Kekere nom de guerre was the direct fall out from his close affinity

Professor Lai Oso of the School of Communication, Lagos State University, Ojo, has said that the recognition on the late Ismaila Isa Funtua will propel the Nigerian Guild of Editors

For all the positives the Akinwunmi Ambode-led administration may have left as legacies, it was a four-year tenure that returned the state to a familiar path of chaos and flagrant disregard for law and order.