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Baba Suwe's Death Rumour Debunked

Contrary to some reports making the rounds on social media, colleagues of the top comic actor, Babatunde Omidina aka 'Baba Suwe', have debunked his death rumour. In their separate reactions, the duo of actor, Yomi Fabiyi and President, Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN), Bolaji Amusan popularly known as Mr. Latin, didn't not only denied the said report, but ascertained that Baba Suwe is hail and healthy. Baba Suwe, it was gathered, left the shores of Nigeria last Saturday, to get exclusive medical attention in the United States of America, where he is said to be responding to treatment.

ADETUNJI ADELEKE THAT I KNOW: A FULL BLOWN DEMOCRAT, A REVOLUTIONARY CIVILIAN ICONOCLAST. (January 1955 – April 23, 2017)

The news of the demise of His Excellency, Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke in early hours of April 23, 2017 was a shocking news to me till today. I found it difficult to believe that I have truly lost a friend, a brother and political teacher and leader. What first came to my mind was his stiff opposition to hero worship and slavery that is called God fatherism. It still makes me feel like im in a dream. He was only 62 years. Senator Adeleke was the first civilian governor of Osun state elected on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the aborted Third Republic whose victory was devoid of the traditional rancour, violence and thuggery.  He was in office between January 1992 and November 1993 giving everybody around him equal opportunity irrespective of where you hail from. Senator Adetunji Adeleke came from the blues throwing the polluted political culture of God fatherism into the dustbin of history by relying solely on his ability to bring like minds of the