YOLA — Ahmed Joda was born in Yola to a Fulani family in 1930, his great-great-grandfather was Modibbo Raji, a 19th-century Islamic scholar and contemporary of Sheikh Usman Dan Fodio. Ahmed Joda attended Yola Elementary School and Yola Middle School before proceeding to Barewa College from 1945 to 1948. Ahmed Joda OFR, CON, CFR is a Nigerian administrator who rose through the administrative cadre of the Northern regional government and then the federal civil service...

Former Justice of Appeal Court of Nigeria, Justice Eugene Chukwuemeka Ubaezonu has died. The West African Pilot News learned that the Nnewi-born jurist, legal luminary, and author died last night 21st May 2021, at the EastWest Hospital, Enugu, according to his son Chinedu Ubaezuonu. Hon. Justice E.C Ubaezuonu (J.C.A Emeritus) who also a recipient of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) is was 90. A graduate of the University of Bristol, England, was...