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THE death on Thursday, April 19 of Hajiya Fatimah Alfa-Belgore, wife of the retired quintessential Chief Justice of the country, Justice Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore, is a further manifestation of the inevitability of death. She died in her hometown, Ilorin at the age of 70 years. This short piece is to acknowledge her simplicity, kindness, love and affection to her nuclear family and to the society she left behind. A LUTH-trained nurse, she got married to Justice Alfa Belgore in 1966, and for forty-six years they weathered the storm before she answered the call of Allah, the All-Knowing.
Category: Tribute Written by Fassy Yusuf
THE death on Thursday, April 19 of Hajiya Fatimah Alfa-Belgore, wife of the retired quintessential Chief Justice of the country, Justice Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore, is a further manifestation of the inevitability of death. She died in her hometown, Ilorin at the age of 70 years. This short piece is to acknowledge her simplicity, kindness, love and affection to her nuclear family and to the society she left behind. A LUTH-trained nurse, she got married to Justice Alfa Belgore in 1966, and for forty-six years they weathered the storm before she answered the call of Allah, the All-Knowing.
Abdulyakeen Badmos: Just like yesterday
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Imam Abdulyakeen Idris Badmos was born in March 1946; he attended a Quranic elementary school at Ofeku’s compound in Ede, a programme he later combined with being an apprentice of sewing and embroidery at the age of 10. He left his home town and travelled to Kano in 1968 where he later settled down with his wife and had all his children. He was a member of the then Sanmori Adeen Islamic Society now Fityatudeen where he was the Qur’an reciter for the then Imam between 1976 and 1986. For 21 years (1987-2008) he was the Tafsir Malam at the mosque and became the Imam of the same mosque in 1996, until his death in 2011 he was the Imam.
Category: Tribute Written by Shakirah T. Tiamiyu
Imam Abdulyakeen Idris Badmos was born in March 1946; he attended a Quranic elementary school at Ofeku’s compound in Ede, a programme he later combined with being an apprentice of sewing and embroidery at the age of 10. He left his home town and travelled to Kano in 1968 where he later settled down with his wife and had all his children. He was a member of the then Sanmori Adeen Islamic Society now Fityatudeen where he was the Qur’an reciter for the then Imam between 1976 and 1986. For 21 years (1987-2008) he was the Tafsir Malam at the mosque and became the Imam of the same mosque in 1996, until his death in 2011 he was the Imam.
Ten years on: Remembering Jarman Kano Adamu Dankabo
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Saying goodbye to Sabo Mohammed: A tribute
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- Written by Yushau A. Shuaib
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More deaths came calling at a period the country had just buried the ex-Igbo warlord Ikemba Odumegbu Ojukwu and an economist of distinction, Professor Sam Aluko, when the news filtered in that a doyen of public relations in Nigeria, Alhaji Sabo Sarki Mohammed passed away on February 5, 2012. Alhaji Sabo Mohammed was the first elected National President of Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) from the North.
Category: Tribute Written by Yushau A. Shuaib
More deaths came calling at a period the country had just buried the ex-Igbo warlord Ikemba Odumegbu Ojukwu and an economist of distinction, Professor Sam Aluko, when the news filtered in that a doyen of public relations in Nigeria, Alhaji Sabo Sarki Mohammed passed away on February 5, 2012. Alhaji Sabo Mohammed was the first elected National President of Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) from the North.