My long drawn agitation on the Sowore issue is not only for him. Rather, it’s for all those who are being subjected to the deprivation of their human rights throughout the world. By the way, I’m not too sure Nigeria celebrated human rights day two days ago. I mean what’s there to celebrate when the…
I don’t know what’s happening in your own locality. However, I just can’t see any preparations for Christmas in my own area A long while ago, when I was a tot. I used to count the months and the days leading to D-day. Christmas was odun kekere, and the New Year was odun nla. I…
Yoruba have a saying, Eyan tan! It’s normally said when someone whom a person holds dearly has disappointed the person who trusted him. There’s an unconfirmed news that the Imo State House of Assembly has endorsed Gomina Okorocha’s son in law as the next governor of the state. It’s apparent that the house doesn’t want…
A video clip is going viral on social media now. I have decided not to share it for a number of reasons among which are, I don’t want to corrupt the assumed yet to be corrupt state of our youths who have not been caught indulging in such, I don’t want to promote the embarrassing…
Photo credit: ABC News I’m very happy this morning. That’s because the government of Nigeria and a couple of state governors have found a ‘permanent’ solution to the incursion of social media into an otherwise docile society. Through the social media, people get to know what’s happening in other countries. They then organize to destabilize…
Justice is the first condition of humanity’. – Wole Soyinka ‘No agreement’ – Fela Kuti. I believe that album is one of the many that describe the very essence of Fela Kuti, who himself was a lifelong victim of man’s inhumanity to fellow human beings. Beeko Ransome-Kuti was sentenced by the Abacha junta for faxing…
Shared by Professor Alloy S Ihuah A Thread of History and Warning. In 1804, Usman dan Fodio launched his Jihad.He conquered Hausaland. Fine.But when he reached the Middle Belt, our ancestors stopped him cold: The Jukun Kingdom repelled them.The Idoma warriors crushed their cavalry.The Berom, Tiv, Bajju, and Kataf refused Islam and the flag of…
