Photo credit: Facebook Brigadier – General Mobolaji Olufunso Johnson died on October 30 at 83 years of age. If I had met him while he was still alive I would have thanked him immensely for not letting school children of those days brood before writing the name of the Lagos state governor throughout my elementary…
Photo credit: Financial Times Not one present absence; Could be felt in essence! Not even freezing cold; Keeps hustlers in hold! Come they in hundreds; Some for hourly bread; Others do come, Just to windowshop! Few do come- And they stun- With their impacts, Which could be global! Riddle of life: Needn’t be held tight!…
So people have been oppressing you and you have been left sulking. You are not serious. Get on your tracks and prove to them that you just can’t be beaten. Alright, you did not succeed the first time and you retire into your cocoon, tail between your hindlegs, like a rain-drenched dog. No, that’s…
Photo credit: ABC news A total of seventy-six protesters have been charged to court with felony counts, including treason, destruction of property, public disturbance and mutiny in a Nigerian court for participating in a protest of the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. AP reports that twenty-nine children aged between 14 and 17 years are among the…
Photo credit: Toronto.com An ongoing police investigation into auto thefts has led to the arrest of 59 people and the laying of 302 charges. Toronto Sun reports that the investigation began in July and is tagged Project Thoroughbred. Warrants have been issued for more than a dozen people, and more than 363 stolen vehicles, valued…
Every human being is made in God’s image. When we value the lives of others, humanity itself is lifted. Credit: © Liz Van Steenburgh | Dreamstime.com Broken, grieving, sometimes confused, often afraid, and complicit, we struggle to know how to respond. Today marks one year since the horrific escalation of violence in Israel, Gaza, the…
Photo credit: Britanica Trump has vowed to stage the “largest deportation in American history.” The Guardian reports that raids and mass deportations lie at the heart of former President, Donald Trump’s second term vision -a web of policies so vast that critics say their collective implementation would challenge the very ideal of the United States as a…
