Month: February 2024

Wigwe, others’ deaths shocking, devastating – Deputy Speaker, Kalu mourns

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Deputy Speaker ,House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu has expressed shock and sadness over the death of the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Bank, Mr. Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Doreen and son, Chizi in a helicopter crash in the United States of America over the weekend. Kalu also mourned the demise of the former Group Chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group), Abimbola Ogunbanjo among others who also lost their lives in the crash. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Levinus Nwabughiogu…

Bukar Abba Ibrahim: The man who touched my life (1), by Hassan Gimba

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“He had a good heart, see where he died.”   “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell     “Daga Allah sai talaka,” (meaning service to the poor after that to God) was his campaign slogan. Bukar Abba Ibrahim was a man whose life was spent in service to the people. This was reflected more in his method of governance that was skewed towards empowering the people.     When Yobe State was created in 1991, the state itself was rural and Damaturu,…

Women who wanted to beat up our president By Festus Adedayo

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This is what Kurumi’s Ijaye looked like after it was attacked and defeated by Ibadan forces in 1860/61: “Old people, men and women and young children were being carried to the river Ose to die,” wrote John Iliffe in his Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Yorubaland. He continued: “Whilst many others were left to perish in the streets. There being no food for them, that many, in order to obtain the means for subsistence, put themselves and children in pawn and others even sold their relatives to procure food to eat.” A…

Abuja Muslim Forum mourns death of Ex PRO,Aboky Sulaiman

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The Abuja Muslim Forum(AMF) commiserated with the family of Aboky Sulaiman a Veteran Journalist and former Public Relations Officer of the forum, whose death occured Saturday 10th February,2024.   AMF in a condolence message signed by Alhaji AbdulRazaq AjaniAmeer,and Ustaz Yunus Salahudeen PRO I,read;   “Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Rajiun The Executive and entire Members of Abuja Muslim Forum(AMF ) condole with the family of Editor NewsForum/Ex- Public Relations Officer (PRO) AMF ,Mallam Aboky Sulaiman family and the entire Keffi Muslim Community and also the Ummah at large on…

BREAKING: Access Bank CEO Wigwe, wife, son and others die in helicopter crash

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The CEO of Access Holdings, Dr Herbert Wigwe has died in a helicopter crash in California, the United States. According to reports, his wife and son were also in the helicopter when it crashed on Friday, February 9, 2024. Abimbola Ogunbanjo, the former group chairman of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (NGX Group), was also among the incident victims. Six passengers were onboard, however, none of them made it alive. Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe was born 15 August 1966 in Ibadan. He was until his demise the CEO of Access Holdings Plc,…

FCT Police foils child trafficking, arrests 3 suspects, rescues 12 Children

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The operatives of FCT Police Command attached to the Rapid Response Squad 74 (RRS 74), on Friday 9th February,2024 at about 12:55 am, intercepted one Muhammad Isah ‘m’ of Kafanchan, Kaduna in a Toyota Hiace bus with Reg No APP 489 XE, conveying twelve; four (4) male and eight (8) female; underaged children to a destination later discovered to be in Ogun state. Preliminary investigation revealed that the children whose ages are between 5 years to 16 years, all from Akwanga LGA, Nasarawa State were being trafficked to Ogun state…

AFCON: Ex-Senate President Lawan mourns five Nigerians who died watching Nigeria’s Semi-final Match

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President of the 9th Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, mourned the death of five Nigerians who died while watching the semi-final match between the Super Eagles and South Africa’s Bafana Bafana, on Wednesday.   This was contained in a condolence message to the deceased families issued on Friday by Senator Lawan.   Among those who reportedly passed were a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Cairo Ojougboh; the Kwara State University Deputy Bursar, Alhaji Ayuba Abdullahi; a sales reprsentatives, Mikhail Osundiji; a serving National Youth Service Corps member, identified simply…

BREAKING: Former Chief of Staff to Ex-President Jonathan dies at 72

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Retired Brigadier General Jones Oladeinde Arogbofa, a former Chief of Staff to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has passed away at the age of 72.     The retired officer of the Nigerian Army died on Saturday morning, February 10, 2024.   Although details surrounding his demise remain unclear, Arogbofa was commissioned into the Nigerian Army in 1973.   Arogbofa, born on November 10, 1952, in Oka-Akoko, Ondo State. He assumed the role of Chief of Staff for former President Jonathan from February 10, 2014, to May 29, 2015.   Arogbofa was…

Intimate Affairs: What women want, by Funke Egbemode

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So there have been protests from certain quarters since last week’s piece, titled: “WHAT EXACTLY DO MEN WANT FROM US?.” How dare you make it look like men are difficult, insatiable, irritable and mean? How about what men want from women or at least those things you women really want instead of being sarcastic? I chuckled at that because men have been pretending that they don’t understand women since Adam willingly took the apple from Eve and voraciously devoured it. They will continue to pretend confused even if you give…

Ekiti: Time to silence the guns (1) By abiodun KOMOLAFE

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Thank God Ekiti school children and their teachers who were kidnapped on Monday, January 29, 2024, have now been released and reunited with their families. May the ‘Land of Honour’ never witness such a horrible experience again!   Yours sincerely also join other well-meaning Nigerians to commiserate with those who lost loved ones to the two tragedies. May God repose the souls of the faithful departed and grant the bereaved families the courage to process their losses and the strength to face whatever lies ahead!   Most of all, Governor…