Exit of an intell-ectual amazon
By Sun News Publishing
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

The foremost Nigerian woman legal intellectual, woman and human rights activist, adminstrator and educationist, Professor Jadesola Olayinka Akande, departed for the great beyond on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. | Read Story

• SOS to Governor Peter Obi
• Black Market’ Universities
• Abraham Adesanya (1922 – 2008)
• Lagos and drivers licences
• G8 leaders and Africa
• The pains of ATM
• Red Cross alert on epidemics
• Catholicism and celibacy
• 
  Jobs for Lagos State youths
• Mentally ill police officers
• Unfit Nigerian teachers
• EFCC and rule of law EFCC
• Laudable achievements in Anambra
• Fate of Nigerians in South Africa
• The oil sector probe
• Inhuman conditions in Nigerian prisons
• The odds against Vision 2020
• Nigeria’s membership of OIC
• Zimbabwe:The gathering storm
• In praise of Modibbo
• Onitsha Stock Exchange
• Gani Fawehinmi at 70
• That attack on The Nation
• Soaring prices of food
• Espionage and national security
• The Abuja plots bazaar
• EFCC and Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello
• Lagos and the coming rainy season
• Unscrupulous Police recruits
• Abia Election Tribunal
• The judiciary’s dose of scandal
• For professionalism in foreign service
• The solar energy option
• The fracas in Ekiti Assembly
• Katsina measles outbreak
• Rejuvenate the Civil Service
• The looming fuel crisis
• Imperative of safe skies
• NIPP project: Let Obasanjo speak
• The Kogi by-election
• NLC at 30
• Challenges before DESOPADEC
• Keep police barracks clean
• The alarm over microfinance institutions
• The Budget impasse
• The Health Ministry scandal
• The power sector scandal
• Nigeria and judgment debts
• How government neglects education
• PDP Convention and Ndigbo
• Chike Obi (1921-2008)
• The loss of Beechcraft aircraft
• For peace in Kenya
• Before Aondoakaa is crucified
• The message of Easter
• Forget offshore refining of crude
• Diversion of N3bn UBE Funds
• The glaucoma alert
• Toast to Samuel Peter
• Married women in politics
• The BRT initiative
• That PDP convention
• The Gas Emission Bill
• The looming doctors’ strike
• The Ekwulobia erosion project
• Contaminated fuel
• The award-winning Lagos pupil
• Compensation for poor GSM services
• Concessioning of international airports
• Threats to the Lagos coastline
• Another sanction on Iran?
• 50 years of Things Fall Apart
• Youth empowerment programme
• The PDP convention
• Yar’Adua’s victory at the Tribunal
• Attacks on LUTH
• Reviving the fire service
• The controversy over NITEL
• TOS Benson (1917-2008)
• Stalling the energy crisis
• End of the Fidel Castro era
• Substandard building Material
• Kalu has been vindicated
• Taming the cancer scourge
• Lingering impasse over UNILORIN 49
• The new poverty reduction scheme
• Turn of events in Kogi State
• HIV-positive police recruits
• The high child mortality rate
• The scandal in PEF
• Sharing excess crude fund
• The judiciary workers’ strike
• Super Eagles’ dismal outing
• Lagos Government and private schools
• Incidence of abandoned projects
• Break the power sector jinx
• Allegation on ‘419’ legislators
• Child-education: A sobering report
• Constituency projects: Good thinking
• Denomination of the Nigerian currency
• Nigerians need more jobs
• Kaduna State, give tourism a trial
• Pay rise for Yar’Adua and others
• Please rescue Ezinachi
• Dilemma of the Nigerian Youth
• Mint’s power generation sleaze
• Disfranchising South-east at AGMs
• Let LGAs work
• Settling military pensioners
• Law against indecent dressing
• Yar’Adua’s rule of law
• Egwu propelled by service
• Merging anti-corruption agencies
• Lettter to Hon. Bankole
• The Okene violence
• Assessing Governor Obi
• Reward these policemen
• Let there be cement
• CBN rules for banks’ public offers
• Unnecessary fare increase
• INEC’s reform agenda
• Reforming the Nigeria Police
• Good news from the legislature
• Stemming frequent fuel price hikes
• Killing Sam Mbakwe Airport
• Council of State members’ allowance
• Reviewing the Constitution
• Banditry in the Niger Delta
• Nigeria and global clinical research
• Ribadu: Howl over nothing
• The turmoil in Kenya
• Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
• Ribadu’s EFCC
• Impetus for Kano-Lagos railway
• Outlook for the New Year
• Yet another pipeline explosion
• Re: Igbos and the Jewish connection
• The Iyabo Obasanjo scandal
• Let Yar’Adua probe Obasanjo now
• Varsities’stabilization fund
• The 48-hour cargo-clearing target
• Re: Kutigi on the judiciary
• Enjoy your Christmas season
• Caution on Free Trade Zones
• The Bauchi mayhem
• The Local Government polls
• The Zaria measles epidemic
• Repositioning NDDC in Abia for development
• Compensating air crash victims
• Enforcement of Nigerian Industrial Standards
• The unresolved murders
• The judgment on Public Order Act
• CON HUBBY
• What to do with monetisation
• Our grounded Air Force jets
• The initiative on cheap malaria drugs
• The alert on expired rice
• The Wilbros bribery scandal
• Sunday Awoniyi (1932-2007)
• NIMET and air safety
• Arming the Civil Defence Corps
• The Fiscal Responsibility Bill
• The Fiscal Responsibility Bill
• Britain and the Nigeria Police
• Bakassi revisited
• PDP’s troubled Convention
• Mobilization of fake corps members
• Spectre of terrorism
• Rising school fees
• Ending gas flaring
• No development in Ohafia LGA.
• Well done, Obi
• The Siemens bribe scandal
• The case against corruption
• Obi and Anambra Water Corporation
• The promise of Okiro’s Police
• Budget 2008
• The NICON imbroglio
• NUC, this is pig-headed
• INEC and PDP Convention
• Official distortion of Abuja
• The Bakassi provocation
• Cyprian Ekwensi (1921-2007)
• The quandary in Pakistan
• Increase in Law School fees
• Justice for ADC crash victims
• A retreat to the Niger Delta
• Call Adedibu to order
• The fall of Etteh
• Tribute to Lucky Dube
• Social Security for Nigerians
• Theophilus Adeyemi Tella (1951-2007)
• Worrisome maternal death records
• A laurel for Chissano
• Proposed Teachers’ Salary Scale
• Lingering Nigeria Airways workers’ benefits
• Toast to ‘King’ Samuel Peter
• Etteh should resign
• Voiding of Governor Idris’ election
• Save the textiles industry
• The new National ID Card scheme
• The duty waivers scam
• The espionage trial
• Rising crime rate
• The uprising at ABU
• Rising cases of certificate forgery
• 
  Problem with PHCN
• Yet another religious clash
• Oil theft in the Niger Delta
• Slain soldiers in Sudan
• Let Oyo State work
• James Ene Henshaw (1924-2007)
• Nigeria at 47
• Limits of state actors
• N628 million contract verdict
• Banks and public offers
• The Stolen Asset Recovery initiative
• Murder of Hon. Olanrewaju
• To make cement cheaper
• The controversy between AGF and EFCC
• Robber son lands mum in jail
• Enugu govt aborts road repairs by opposition candidate
• The National Workplace Policy on AIDS
• The Ibadan jailbreak
• Reviewing Lagos traffic laws
• Initiative against illegal detention
• New impetus for railway development
• The Golden Eaglets victory
• Reviewing the education reforms
• To President Yar’Adua
• We vote for rule of law
• GSM: Breaking the monopoly of numbers
• We vote for rule of law
• 13th World Igbo Congress
• The new economic council
• Leave Patricia Etteh alone
• Yar’Adua’s 100 days in office
• Lagos govt reassures on security
• Yar’Adua has refocused the nation – Group
• Suspension of tax concessions
• The Forum of Retired IGs
• The agric projects probe
• The new face of Mbomuzo festival
• Reforming the electoral system
• Osunbor begins probe of sale of govt property by Igbinedion
• The missing oil revenue
• The Adedayo Morakinyo example
• JAMB and remedial programmes
• The coming energy emergency
• The Global Steel miracle
• Etteh’s house renovation blues
• Is this the end for Soludo?
• Ex-Biafran soldiers’ pensions
• Radical agenda on the Niara
• NNPC’s N555 billion fleece
• Cocaine in Virgin aircraft
• GSM: A poor score card
• The anarchy in Port Harcourt
• Soludo’s critics are ignorant – Obiokeke
• The Vice President’s assets
• Diversion of donated drugs
• Tribute to Evan Enwerem
• Augustine Ilodibe (1932-2007)
• Reign of terror in Port Harcourt
• Between EFCC and Kalu
• Attorney-General & anti-graft agencies
• Egwu’s accusers have no facts, say Igbo youths
• Return of killer kerosene
• The mandatory bread registration
• Don’t concession National Theatre
• The malaria scourge
• Whither EFCC ?
• Don’t increase electricity tariffs
• The President’s cabinet
• Police, stakeholders disagree over insecurity in Kano
• Order on meat transportation
• Sale of refineries
• Fighting armed robbery in Lagos
• NAFDAC’s ban on re-useable syringes
• Let VAT rate be
• The release of Lagos councils fund
• Cleric calls for creation of Oron Senatorial district
• The measles epidemic in Borno
• FERMA and Ore-Benin expressway
• To the President
• NYSC quota crisis
• The example from China
• The 10,000 megawatts deadline
• A hollow ministerial screening
• Leave monarchs out of politics
• Governors and assets declaration
• Lagos and the BOI building
• Unemployment crisis
• The killings in Port Harcourt
• Banks and SMEs
• A Unity Government for Africa
• A Unity Government for Africa
• The shake-up in the police
• See Archive