YESTERDAY was the 89th birthday of Africa’s Nobel laureate, Professor ‘Wole Soyinka. We wish the ecumenical being many happy returns of the day in good health, safety, joy, honour and contentment.
Recently, Dr Victor Omololu Sowemimo Olunloyo, sterling mathematician, engineer, philosopher, connosieur, wit politician, a former Governor of old Oyo State and much more, turned 88 years old.
On March 25,1958, 65 years ago, the bundle of academic, political and traditional wizardry, Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu, alias 'Penkelemeesi', died in a motor accident at Remo area on the old Lagos-Ibadan Road, aged 43.