King Sunny Ade turns eighty this day, the 22nd of September, 2026, active, agile, and still rocking the music world, with fans everywhere dancing to the rhythmic strings of his guitar and singing along to his melodious, intelligent, and enduringly popular music. What many contemporary Afrobeat artists still aspire to, King Sunny Ade has already …
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Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, MFR, the actor and film executive the world came to know as Olu Jacobs, died on September 16, 2026, at the age of 84, bringing to a close a career that had spanned more than five decades and two continents. The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission joins his family, the …
OLUDOTUN BAIYEWU JACOBS, MFR (1942–2026): A Tribute to the Godfather of Nollywood Read More »
Otunba Bimbola Ashiru was born in Ijebu-Ode to the illustrious Ashiru family, the son of the late Pa Simeon Adeyemi Ashiru, a distinguished Ijebu statesman, and Omo’ba (Princess) Moradeun Ashiru, of the Fidipote royal family of Ijebu-Ode and the ruling house of Owu-Ijebu. Over more than three decades since he first walked into a banking …
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Very Rev. Prof. Konyinsola Ajayi, SAN, was born on May 25, 1959, and raised in the intellectual and professional tradition of a family deeply rooted in Nigeria’s legal and public life. He is the son of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi (1925–2016), the revered Nigerian lawyer, Afenifere chieftain, a revered author, and elder statesman who founded the …
Benjamin Ola Akande was born in 1962 in Nigeria, the only son among five children of Rev. Dr. Samuel T. Ola Akande, a widely respected Baptist minister with ancestral ties to Awe town in Oyo state, and Comfort Olalonpe Akande, in a household that prized ambition long before Akande had the means to reach for …
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Oluwafunmilayo Olonisakin was born on 8 February 1965 in South London to Nigerian parents, the child of two worlds long before she chose to spend her career moving between them. She would go on to become a scholar, feminist, institution-builder, and one of the most consequential voices in African peace and security studies, a woman …
Oyeyimika Adeboye stands as a towering figure in Nigerian corporate history, defined by a four-decade career of shattering barriers and leading with unwavering integrity. Born the 21st of 27 children into a prominent dynasty, she forged a distinct path by choosing excellence over excuse, service over self, and patience over shortcuts. She built a legacy …
On Saturday, August 1, 2026, in Lagos, the voice that narrated Ibadan and Yorubaland to two generations fell silent. Oloye AbdulRasheed Olalekan Alabi, the Abese Olubadan of Ibadanland, passed away at the age of seventy-six. News of his passing spread quickly across newsrooms, government houses, palace halls, and radio studios—spaces where he had long been …
Emeritus Professor Ayo Bamgbose is gone, and Nigeria’s academic world is left to sit with a silence it has not known in a long while. He was born in Odopotu, a small community near Ijebu Ode in present-day Ogun State, on 27 January 1932, and he died in Ibadan on 25 July 2026, at 94, …
Tajudeen Owoyemi was once a small boy on the streets of Ilorin, balancing a tray of ekuru on his head, hawking it for his grandmother before the sun grew too hot to walk barefoot. He did not know, then, that the same hands stacking river sand at nearby construction sites for a few naira would …
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