FOREMOST literary icon and giant of African literature Pa Gabriel imomotimi Okara has passed away.
Aged 98, Pa Okara, reportedly died on Sunday after a brief illness.
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Ibadan building collapse survivor: We were buried for six hours
A day after rescue efforts at the site of a collapsed three-storey building at Sogoye, Idi-Arere, Ibadan ended, survivors narrated their ordeal. The survivors include Femi Fatiregun, Ismaila Segun and Musa Yakubu. No deaths were recorded as all eight construction workers at the site were rescued alive.
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TRIBUTE: Mike Angere goes home today
YOGA expert and columnist in Vanguard newspapers, Mr. Mike Angere, who died last Friday in Lagos after a brief illness, will be buried at Atan Cemetery in Lagos this morning. Born Michael Angere on September 28, 1948, Mike as he was fondly called by friends and colleague, joined Vanguard Media Limited as a columnist.
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Building collapse: Please, save my child, save my child!, traumatised mother weeps
Dozens of children were among scores of people feared trapped on Wednesday after a four-storey building collapsed in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos, rescuers told AFP, with at least four dead bodies pulled from the rubble.
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As a child, she washed dishes in her mum’s restaurant in Benin, now she runs the biggest African restaurant in Germany…
While growing up in the back streets of Oredo, in the ancient city of Benin south south of Nigeria, Juliet Erhunmwunse Wohlgemuth had washed dishes and ran errands in her mother’s makeshift restaurant at Sapele Road park to support her family without an inkling that such services would ever become her main occupation later in life.
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