Photo credit: Ocha Schools in Haiti resumed to discover teachers have fled, and the homeless are occupying schools. The Daily Item reports that several classrooms are condemned, while openings in the roofs and walls from the 2010 earthquake still need to be repaired in one of the oldest schools, Lycee Pinchinat de Jacmel. Although hundreds…
Photo credit: Facebook A bull is never friends with the slaughter slab. He knows the place signifies its end. One other thing a bull is perpetually afraid of is anything red. Red stands for bloodshed. So a bull feels it in the subconscious that nothing red is too good for it However, Lagosians tend to…
Photo credit: the Guardian Let’s roll out the drums and celebrate.Oh yes, why shouldn’t we? Our naira is now greater than the dollar.Our oil is now worth two hundred dollars per barrel.We now grow our own food.We export rice to China.Palm produce to Malaysia.Every farm has irrigation.Every able bodied man is employed.The sick and old…
Photo credit: But lama Yeah, Nigeria should have been celebrating her independence today. She got her flag independence on this day in 1960. But apart from government officials and their partners in crime, who in Nigeria can really celebrate with reckless abandon? I know we should thank God for His little mercies over us. But…
Photo credit: Premium Times In the light of the propagandist of ex president Jonathan, one Reno Omokare’s long criticism of Omoyele Sowore, I just can’t help remembering the late Dr Beekololari Ransome Kuti. Like most adults know, he was a child of two progressive parents. His father was the popular Principal of Abeokuta Grammar School…
Photo credit: Shutterstock In my innocence, I used to think grey hair and baldness went with riches and wisdom. Not until I started having both did I realise my belief was nothing but a ruse. The grey hair started with an obscure strand. But it is all over me now, even in the unlikeliest of…
Photo credit: All Africa How could Nigeria be 60 years old? It’s nothing but a lie! We claim to be giants of Africa. Sure, we should be, but for our being in chains. I should think we have to critically examine ourselves as citizens or followers. That’s because it’s from the citizenry that leaders emerge….
