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Punch Newspapers Sections ENIOLA AKINKUOTU Published 12:12 am In this piece, ENIOLA AKINKUOTU examines the life and times of activist, Yinka Odumakin, who died of COVID-19 complications on Friday Soldiers are formed not within the confines of quotidian comforts, but in the middle of struggles against tribulations in pursuit of a higher cause. This perhaps explains why the All Progressives Congress leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, said on Saturday that the story of Nigeria’s current democratic dispensation would not be complete without “emblazoning Yinka Odumakin’s name in gold” as he was a “doughty fighter for freedom and the rule of law.” ....
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The Return Of Akeredolu By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN Perhaps unknown to herdsmen and the Presidency, there is an existing law in Ondo State, enacted as far back as 1st February, 1938, for the creation, preservation and control of virgin forests in the State. by Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa Jan 26, 2021 I read the story with some disbelief, praying that it will soon be rebutted and denied as one of those social media stunts. But alas! The police authorities in Ondo State later confirmed that Chief Olu Falae was indeed attacked in his farm around Oba Ile area of Akure, by suspected herdsmen. How could this happen, with such bravado, for the herders to set parts of the farm on fire, destroy the crops and hope to get away untouched? Not long thereafter, the tension was stoked again with the cold-blooded murder of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Pa Fasoranti, frontline statesman and prominent Yoruba leader. And as if these were not enough, we woke up one day to learn that a fro ....
Didi Adodo – Another Painful Eternal Exit By Denja Yaqub His presence and roles in organisations of left extractions were colossal, as huge as his frame, though most times anonymous but not underscoring his high level of commitment and discipline. by Denja Yaqub Jan 21, 2021 When we first met mid-80s, he strikingly exhibited all the attributes of a courageous, determined, focused comrade optimistic, like the rest of us, of the imminence of a revolution that would ‘’soon’’ upturn the entire system that viciously divides the society in an unbalanced class of exploiters and the exploited; oppressors and the oppressed; the poor and the rich. ....
Interrogating Falana’s Ekiti State University convocation lecture (5) Interrogating Falana’s Ekiti State University convocation lecture (5) Share TODAY we take snippets from the remaining part of Femi Falana’s Ekiti State University Convocation Lecture as we draw the curtains on this very topical, well-researched, well-articulated, even if controversial, lecture. This is as should be expected of someone who had never shied away from controversy. Starting out as Patrick and “Omo Fada” (who attended to Catholic priests and who, himself, was in line to becoming one), then an atheist later in life, a radical and revolutionary activist on campus at Ife, who later drank from the well of human and civil rights activists and social crusaders like Alao Aka-Bashorun, Baba Omojola, Kanmi Ishola-Osobu, before rubbing shoulders with the likes of stormy petrel, Gani Fawehinmi, fire-eaters like Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Beko Ransome-Kuti, to mention but a few, Falana has etch ....