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DANIYAN - Selfless ’til the end

Details: Category: Tribute; Created on Saturday, 17 December 2011 06:00; Written by Adie Vanessa Offiong; Hits: 4311

Silas Bandele Daniyan, popularly known as SB, was a First Republic politician and pioneer Managing Director, Nigeria Industrial Development Bank (NIDB) and Minister of National Planning. In the aborted Third Republic, he was a prominent face in the influential Shehu Musa Yar’adua political machine.

> DANIYAN - Selfless ’til the end

Category: Tribute Written by Adie Vanessa Offiong

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 December 2011 06:00

Yasmin: Gone too soon

Details: Category: Tribute; Created on Saturday, 10 December 2011 06:00; Written by Basheer Bala; Hits: 8167

Time really flies without being considerate to our wills, emotions, aspirations and endless lists of wants and love we have for our well-wishers and close relatives as well as the thought encompassing the beneficial vitality of the precept of “Long Live and Prosperity”. The shocking death of Yasmin confirmed, with no iota of doubt, the veracity of the presumption that death does not bargain.

Adieu, Mahmud Sule!

Details: Category: Tribute; Created on Saturday, 29 October 2011 06:00; Written by Sule Ya’u Sule; Hits: 3219

The death of a close friend is always a personal tragedy difficult to understand and the closer the person to you the deeper the sorrow. The unexpected death of my childhood friend and soulmate, Mahmoud Sule Baba Diso, a staff of Unity Bank, Azare Branch on Thursday, September 22, 2011 is a lump of pain chocking my heart without easing.

When a journalist stopped a bullet

Details: Category: Tribute; Created on Saturday, 29 October 2011 06:00; Written by Hamza Idris, Maiduguri; Hits: 3730

Pundits believe that like judges who preside over cases in courts, it is very dangerous for journalists to have friends outside the confines of their professional circle.

> When a journalist stopped a bullet

Category: Tribute Written by Hamza Idris, Maiduguri

Pundits believe that like judges who preside over cases in courts, it is very dangerous for journalists to have friends outside the confines of their professional circle.

Last Updated on Saturday, 29 October 2011 06:00

Tahir: Exit of an officer and gentleman

Details: Category: Tribute; Created on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:24; Written by Nuruddeen Mohammed; Hits: 3568

It is a date in December 2010 at about 2000hrs. I had just arrived home from office after a tedious but fruitful day. My wife was in Kaduna for an event. I was barely three minutes in the house trying to figure out what to do as there was no electricity, when someone knocked at the door and concurrently, with rather coercive voice, asked me to open up. Instinctively, a thought suggested, perhaps I have been trailed since I was not expecting anyone. Instantly I tried to visualize how to confront the situation should it be a “violent call”. Fortunately, I had an exit strategy; take the backdoor balcony and exit through the 4th floor of neighbor’s house. That did not happen as the mighty PHCN restored the light for ten minutes (my prayer was not in vain), that gave me the leverage to peep through the door pin hole to see and make sure who my visitor was.

> Tahir: Exit of an officer and gentleman

Category: Tribute Written by Nuruddeen Mohammed

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 03:24