Every morning, long before dawn breaks, young men and women flood Addis Ababa’s bus terminals. They board buses bound for Djibouti, Sudan, and destinations beyond Ethiopia’s borders. Many are university graduates whose hopes for a stable future have been eroded by years of unemployment, insecurity, conflict, and displacement. For them, migration is no longer a choice; it…
Photo credit: NDTV At least eight Rohingya Muslims, including women and children, were killed and several others injured early Monday after heavy monsoon rains triggered multiple landslides at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said. Asiaone reports that more than 1.2 million Rohingya live in overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee settlement,…
His grass to wealth story was known to almost everybody then. Many a parent prayed his kind of fortune for their wards. He made the difference between being rich and being wealthy clear. It was rumoured in those days that if he wanted to travel by air and he was yet to board the flight,…
Is it not interesting that MKO Abiola’s death was three days after July 4? July 4 happens to be the anniversary of the independence of the United States. Another thing of interest is the fact that two great Americans -Thomas Pickering and Susan Rice –witnessed the last minutes of the fat cat. It could therefore…
I wouldn’t know where the abnormal culture came from. We had enough of cleavages in those days. I mean when ladies couldn’t wait to show their mammary glands off. Then, the sad thing was that many of those twins were even sagging! It got to a stage where respectable churches refused to join ladies who…
Romancing depression,Living’s a failure!Death comes with hope,Of release from life; Courage needs he,Life rope to cut,Bull’s enduring,Neck and knife,Aren’t friends! Depression is invasive,Death welcoming,Consoles and pets you,Till almost zero hour,Point of no return! Late it is!Too, too late!! Between death, andLast breath-Comes regret! Lady breaks my heart!Hubby jilts me!Dad leaves us!JAMB fails me! Depression’s grimy,Cold…
It was on this day in 1998 that the man in most of us died. Yes, I say most of us because we know some people were ready, even before that day, to defend what remained of our democracy with their very blood. But most of us were instead of defending our democracy asking what…
