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Vanguard News Innocent Chukwuma: Evergreen legacies that never fade On By Adewale Adeoye His death struck like lightning: swift, decisive and frightening. How can we humans disappear, like a loose kite in the sky, just like that, with all the knowledge, the wits, the future we all look at, like a far off blistering star? If death was thoughtful enough, Inno should not have been the next victim. If death had listed excellent people at the bottom of its roll call and villains on the top, Inno would have lived up to 100 years and disgusting rulers would have been consumed in rage. But death is ...

Share I saw the late Professor Jide Aluko who was Head of the International Relations Department, University of Ife, until Mr Femi Falana got him sentenced to death of eternal shame in 1987 over the misappropriation of some grant to the department. Interestingly, it was the Professor who approached the court pesided over by Justice Adeniran for libel. He had sued Dr M.A. Ojo, a colleague for shredding his character. Unfortunately for him, Dr Ojo engaged Mr Falana, who was then with the Aka Bashorun chambers. When the case started, lawyers to Aluko came with the biggest law books in town but F...