On July 17, foremost entrepreneur and philanthropist, Dr Seinye O.B. Lulu-Briggs, will receive the Special African Business Leadership Commendation Award at the 14th African Business Leadership Awards (ABLA) at the House of Lords, London, United Kingdom. ABLA is the African…
Substituting quality elder care for befitting burials — Akintayo Abodunrin
Nigerians love celebrations, especially burials. We spare no expense on what we call a ‘befitting burial’. Though the children of the deceased might be hand-in-glove with poverty, they don’t mind borrowing heavily to give their departed – either father or…
Seinye Lulu-Briggs: 65 cheers to an altruist — Akintayo Abodunrin
I was pleasantly surprised when I met her a year ago in Accra, Ghana because she wasn’t what I had imagined she would be. The relentless smear campaign against her had left me with a false image. I had expected…
In “The Law is an Ass”, Adedokun curates’ breakfast’ tales — Akintayo Abodunrin
A review of Niran Adedokun’s The Law is an Ass: Narrative Landscape Press; 2021 Writer, public relations practitioner and lawyer Niran Adedokun released The Law is an Ass, a collection of short stories published by Narrative Landscape Press in 2021.…
Portrait of an intellectual soldier, a review of Niran Adedokun’s “The Man, The Solider, The Patriot” — Akintayo Abodunrin
People have various ways of rationalising death and consoling the bereaved, especially if the deceased died young. ‘Igi t’o to ki pe ni ‘gbo’, meaning straight trees don’t last in the forest, is one of the common sayings of the…