•Professor Charles Nnolim

Professor of English and World Literatures, Charles Nnolim, is dead.

Nnolim died in Port Harcourt, where he lectured for many years.

Though Nnolim’s age at death is not very clear, it is estimated at mid to late eighties.

Nnolim’s scholarly works include: “Approaches to the African Novel”, “Teaching African Literature Today,. “Literature, Literary Criticism and National Development.”

Prof Chijoke Uwasomba of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife who is familiar with Nnolim’s works, said that Nnolim remains one of the finest as far as literary criticism is concerned.

Nnolim left an impressive imprint that is fascinating and worthy.

Nnolim’s death is the fall of an iroko, which will definitely be felt in the literary world.

Nnolim is a product of the old Alvan Ikokwu College of Education.

He capped his intellectual height with a PhD from the Catholic University in the United States.

He returned to Nigeria, landing at the University of Port Harcourt, in the thriving and tempting atmosphere at the time Nigerian universities were seen as the place to be.

• ex-President Muhammad Buhari

Mallam Garba Shehu, the Spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, declared on Tuesday :” Buhari is Broke,” a Nigerian English for being hard up financially .

Garba Shehu maintained that Buhari left office with his personal integrity intact as nobody can say he gave him a bribe.

While insisting that Buhari is broke and does not have money, he also said that the allegation that the former President does not have a certificate was a product of politics surrounding the 2015 election.
Shehu stated these in Abuja while fielding questions from journalists after a press conference to announce the public presentation of his 260-page book on July 9 titled, “According to The President: Lessons from a Presidential Spokesperson’s Experience.”

According to him, contrary to insinuations, “Buhari is one of the most voracious readers in Nigeria.

He reads all Newspapers and asks for Newspapers every morning.

Shehu said Buhari did not speak to media because he was not a showman and wanted his work to impact on the people.

Business mogul and philantrophist Aminu Dantata, is set to be buried tomorrow (Tuesday) in Medina, Saudi Arabia after he died on Saturday in the United Arab Emirates.

Sources closed to the family disclosed that it was Dantata’s wish to be buried in a city he adored and where Islam’s prophet Muhammad lived and died.

Dantata, 94, an uncle of Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, is survived by three wives, 21 children and 121 grandchildren.

His body was set to be transferred from Abu Dhabi, where he died, to the holy city of Medina after Saudi authorities approved his burial in their country.

Background and Wealth

He was known across Nigeria for his philanthropic activities.

Last year, he donated 1.5 billion naira ($972,000; £710,000) to victims of the devastating floods in north-eastern Borno state.

His business interests cut across agriculture, real estate, construction and manufacturing.

He first made his name in agriculture, starting trading kola nuts and groundnuts in the 1940s.

He came from a business family – his father Alhassan Dantata was once considered to be the richest man in West Africa.

Despite his riches, Dantata lived in one of the poorest areas of the northern city of Kano, like his parents before him.

His influence was also felt in politics, with politicians eager to seek his blessings before elections.