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Mr. Yinka Adebayo, Group Executive Director at Omnicom Media Group, West and Central Africa (WeCA), has said that brands and brand managers must continue to re-invent themselves if they must continue to enjoy enduring patronages from today’s consumers noting that such reinvention has to be tailored towards thorough understanding and meeting the desired expectations of…
Pastor Tunde Bakare is one of Nigeria’s most respected and influential pastors. A trained lawyer and an incredibly eloquent man of God, he cut a large chunk of his pastorial teeth under the tutelage of Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi, the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church. He later left the Deeper…
Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder and Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel) celebrated his 70th birthday and it had all the trappings of the birthday celebration of a man regarded as one of the biggest men of God to come from this side of the planet. One of the highlights of the…
She told the story before of how her husband got up in the wee hours, scribbled a few things in a jotter, and asked what she thought of the names and the sketch. Several good things happen in the bedroom, often the place of rest and renewal. Sometime in 2004, Sam Nda-Isaiah and his wife…
Ten years ago, Mrs Felicia Oluremi Oyo, left this earthly prison house and transited to the great beyond, to tranquil Heaven at the relatively young age of 61. Thomas Campbell says, and he is right that “to live in the hearts of those we love is not to die”. Mrs. Oyo lives on, her memory…
On February 18, 1947, the Daily Service newspaper published a story whose theme, like the ancient Secretarybird, has remained with Nigeria ever since. It is a story of the affinity between sex and corruption. Son of Alake of Egbaland and a no-nonsense judge, Justice Adetokunbo Ademola, then of the Lagos Santa Anna Magistrate Court, presided…
What instantly seized my attention was the mention of “Governor’s wife”. The reporter’s instinct in me immediately got into fine fettle. Like the character Al Barney in James Hadley Chase’s thriller An Ear to the Ground, I became all ears in an eavesdropping manner. The fair-complexioned well-built beautiful lady who was superintending over the gathering…
Professors, Doctors including the top officers amongst the non-teaching staff, bombarded their Cooperative offices at the HRDC Building, University of Lagos for a soft loan of sum of N35,000.00 (thirty five thousand naira) towards empowering them to buy a 5kg bag of rice, beans and “gari” (OUNJE EKO .” Nkan n be” (wonder shall never…
Before my two kòrókòró eyes, I saw a flea metamorphosed into a lion. This is not fàbú, it’s true. I watched a bug grow into a beast, and I saw a small, toothy boy, whose jerry curls fluffed down his shoulders, dribbling his way to stardom. All of the flea, the bug, and the fluffy-haired…
The Christianese, “affliction shall not rise the second time”, is an authoritative declaration of an utter end to extreme suffering and perfectly sums up what Ajuri Ngelale, the recently departed Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, represented to the President Bola Tinubu administration. It has to be stated, though, that hiring Ajuri…
