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Back Of The Book

Back Of The Book : In Ghana To Rescue Highlife
February 9, 2009

 Femi Esho, popular producer of highlife music, goes to Ghana with the lost works of great Ghanaian highlife musicians

By Sylvester Asoya

A few months back, a group of Germans organised a workshop on the declining fortunes of highlife music at the University of Lagos. The gathering, which drew participants from West Africa and beyond, deliberated on [...]

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Back Of The Book : My Mission To Ghana

Femi Esho, Managing Director, Evergreen Musical Company spoke with SYLVESTER ASOYA on his recent trip to Ghana and why he is passionate about highlife musicYou were in Ghana recently to sign an agreement to reproduce the works of great Ghanaian highlife musicians whose works are no longer available today.
 
 
 Q: What exactly are you doing with [...]

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Back Of The Book : More Than A Golden Handshake
November 3, 2008

At the 24th Convocation of Unilorin, graduates get golden advice aimed at making them not only useful to themselves but to the society  
By Stephen Oni/Ilorin
“The end is the beginning, so the completion of your undergraduate academic programme is not the end of university education, not to talk of the end of knowledge.” These were [...]

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Back Of The Book, News : Prostrate Hospitals
March 17, 2008

Obsolete and inadequate medical equipment render government-owned hospitals in Ogun State prostrate
By Yemisi Adeniran
Benjamin Okon, a Lagos-based building contractor and elder brother to Lynda Okon, an accident victim at the Ogun State General Hospital, Ijebu-Ode, has an axe to grind with the hospital management. His grouse has to do with not just the critical condition [...]

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Back Of The Book : Ogun Will Overcome Its Health Challenges

Dr. (Mrs.) Abiodun Oduwole, the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, spoke with YEMISI ADENIRAN on the challenging situation of health facilities in the state-owned hospitals and measures being taken to overcome them
Q: Please, describe the state of health in Ogun State when the current administration came on board.
A: The number of medical staff [...]

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