President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sent a five-person delegation to represent him and the country at the final burial rites of Rev. Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights leader, activist and former presidential candidate.

Jackson passed away at age 84 on February 17, 2026, in Chicago.

Senator George Akume, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, is the leader of the delegation.

Other members are the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu; the Minister of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, Hannatu Musawa; the Special Presidential Envoy for Global and Pan-African Affairs, Brian Browne; and the Senior Special Assistant, Foreign Affairs and International Relations, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaye.

The delegation will deliver President Tinubu’s message of condolences to the Jackson family.

In an earlier tribute, President Tinubu described Reverend Jackson as a great friend of Nigeria and Africa.

“He was a moral voice and a formidable resistance to apartheid in South Africa. He played a leading role in the campaign for the release from prison of Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress leaders. He won critical support for sanctions against the then apartheid government”, President Tinubu wrote.

The burial programme for the civil rights leader began on February 26, with a lying-in-state at Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago. Services in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., and a lying-in-state at the South Carolina Statehouse were scheduled for March 1-5.

On March 6, a “People’s Celebration” will take place at House of Hope in Chicago, followed by a private homegoing on March 7 at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President,
(Information and Strategy)
March 4, 2026

On Monday, Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke joined in celebrating the 84th birthday of Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

In a video shared by the governor’s Special Assistant on Digital Media, Oni Lawrence, Adeleke was seen serenading the cleric during a courtesy visit.

The video was captioned, “Yesterday night, Governor Ademola Adeleke rejoices with Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye on the joyous occasion of his 84th birthday.

“He celebrates a life devoted to faith, humility and service to humanity, a spiritual father whose teachings and prayers have shaped generations across Nigeria and beyond.”

A woman has come out to claim the baby that was found abandoned in a bush in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Recall that LIB reported yesterday that a newborn baby with the placenta still attached was recovered by residents and a man within the area decided to pay for the child’s medical care after police officers who attended to the matter did not try to claim the baby.

Mr Okorom Ofuma then cried out that after paying for the baby to be placed in an incubator, for oxygen for the child, and other medical expenses, the child was revived from the edge of death and he decided to begin the formal process of adopting the baby.

However, he said authorities blocked his attempt at adopting the baby girl and told him the baby is the government’s child.

A woman who read the initial story on LIB’s online platform has now reached out claiming the child is hers.

She shared a video of herself today, Feb 26, confronting the hospital in Port Harcourt where she gave birth. She claimed the hospital lied to her that her child di£d only for her to now see her child online.

In a long chat with LIB, the woman, Naomi, narrated the complications before her pregnancy that led to her changing hospitals on the day she gave birth.

At the new hospital (which will not be named for now since it has not been verified that the accusations against the hospital are true), Naomi said they decided to carry out surgery, which she consented to.

As an orphan without any close living family member, her landlady was the one with her in the hospital.

After birth via CS, she said they took the baby away and she did not get to see the baby or find out the gender. According to her, the first scan she went for showed she was expecting a baby girl but the later scan showed a boy, so she assumed she had a son.

She claims that after surgery on May 9, 2025, her landlady told her the baby did not survive. When she confronted hospital staff, they told her the baby is alive and is being given medical care. She was then given a sedative that knocked her out.

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