Sanusi Adebisi Idikan- (1882 – 1838) first Ibadan notable entrepreneur and philanthropist, By Femi Kehinde

“When you go home, tell them of us and sayFor your tomorrow, we gave you our today” This evocative epithet is enshrined on the Kohima World Memorial in Nagaland, built to commemorate Soldiers, who laid down their lives to repel Japanese assault in 1944 during World War II. Yet successive Indian Governments since 1947 haven’t […]

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Alfa Bisiriyu Apalara (1918-1953): A Murder Mystery That Haunted Lagos, By Femi Kehinde

Murder is as old as mankind. Cain, because of a jealous rage, killed his brother Abel, according to the book of Genesis in the Bible. In exact similitude, Qabil and Habil, believed by Moslems to have been the first two sons of Adam and Eve, just like Cain and Abel in the Bible, also suffered […]

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Olabisi Ajala, the Traveller: Of Fame and Penury, By Femi Kehinde

In a moment of psychological terror, anguish and angst, Sophocles, at a point of deep exasperation, in Oedipus Rex, said: “call no man happy, until he is dead!” Life did terrible things to Oedipus. He had unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother. Chance rules our lives and the future, certainly, is all unknown. In […]

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