Photo credit: Nigeria Nostalgia Mine was a very lively childhood. I would say I had a pretentious innocence. That’s because I actually knew much more than the adults knew that I did. And, I’m suspecting that at least half of the youngsters of those days had a semblance of that too. You know, school was…
Photo credit: Britannica These are certainly days when those of us who are no Muslims suddenly wish why not. Even at these austere times, if you stay in a place where Muslims are many, like I do, you should, by now, be working out how to pay Sallah visits to your numerous friends. It is…
Photo credit: YouTube Sometime in the not-too-far past, I used to visit Togo frequently. Of course, you can only visit Togo from Nigeria through the Republic of Benin. At least, that’s the only route I know. Since the hotel I usually stayed in was on the Togo-Ghana border, I usually used the opportunity to visit…
Photo credit: Times of Israel Farhan Al-Qadi made a record as the first Israeli hostage to have been rescued alive from inside Hamas’ expansive tunnel network under Gaza.CNN reports that his family has hailed his “unbelievable” rescue by the IDF, saying it is as if he had been “brought back to life.” A Bedouin Israeli…
Photo credit: ABC A Tamil asylum seeker has died after setting himself alight in Australia in protest against Australia’s refugee policy. Daily Mail reports that Mano Yogalingam suffered 80 per cent burns of his body in Melbourne’s Dandenong region on Tuesday. He was rushed to the Alfred Hospital but died later on Wednesday. His death…
Photo credit: Daily Trust The federal government has, through the director general of the National Council for Arts and Culture, banned fetish displays at cultural festivals. To usher in the 2017 African Arts and Craft Expo starting in Abuja today, Olusegun Runsewe was said to have gleefully announced that this would affect subsequent cultural events…
