My tribute to Chinua Achebe

Eulogies and tributes have continued to trail the death and burial of literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe.

Police intercept bomb-laden car in Kano

Improvised Explosive Devices and other items recovered from a vehicle intercepted by security men in Kano...on Wednesday. INSET: The intercepted Volkswagen Golf car.
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Boko Haram: Police arrest 500 foreigners in Lagos

No fewer than, 500 nationals of some neighbouring countries resident in Lagos, were yesterday arrested by the state police command in connection with Thursday’s arrest of two Boko Haram suspects at Ijora area of the state.

Prof Chinua Achebe: Exit of literary giant

Turning in a widening gyre, the falcon could not hear the falconer, things fall apart and the center could not hold , mere anarchy is loosed upon the earth, that is the W. B. Yeats lines that announced the title of the famous book written by the Iroko of African and world literature Professor Chnualumogu Achebe, 82, who passed to the land of the spirits yesterday in Boston, Massachusetts.

79-year old defiles tenant’s daughter

An Ebute Meta Magistrates Court, Lagos on Wednesday granted a N200,000 bail to a septuagenarian  landlord, Adesomoju Odoro who was docked for alleged defilement of a nine-year-old girl