Religious killings could not have happened in the southwestern Nigeria in which I grew up. We were Christians. Surrounding us were Muslims, some even lived with us. Baba Taju lived across the road. Baba Semiyu lived in the house next to us. Beside us was the house in which the 2 Baba eleran lived. They…
Photo credit: Euractiv The European Commission is planning an unprecedented first meeting with Taliban officials in Brussels to discuss deporting Afghan migrants back to the Taliban-controlled country. United24 Media reports that commision spokesman Markus Lammert confirmed that the EU executive and the Swedish Justice Ministry have sent a letter to the de facto authorities in Afghanistan to inquire…
Photo credit: Global News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country has started preparations for a military drone deal with Canada, though the government offered no confirmation of such an agreement Tuesday. The Canadian Press reports that Zelenskyy wrote on a social media post on Monday that: “We have also begun preparations for the drone deal with Canada….
Photo credit: Diamond 88.5 FM Yoweri Museveni, 81, has been sworn in for a seventh consecutive time as the President of Uganda. He was sworn in Tuesday for another five years. Army chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the president’s son and presumptive heir, oversaw rehearsals of the military parade that animated the inauguration of Museveni, with Russian-made Sukhoi…
I nearly forgot to congratulate Nigeria and Nigerians on the august occasion of our being crowned the second importer of champagne, the bubbly wine, after France. We should ‘pop champagne’ o! Was it not Karl Marx, the German economist, who in his lack of foresight said: ‘religion is the opium of the people’? Although there…
Yes, don’t you know Nigeria is practising a two-party system? And the beauty of it is that it’s a democracy. It is a democracy because we the citizens Muda have not objected to the insanity being offered us. The two parties are the rich and the poor. If you like you may say the haves…
Some incredulous people who are even far worse than the doubting biblical Thomas have started again. The results of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board have mercifully been released. Shouldn’t we be happy that it took approximately a month for the results of a computer based multiple choice examination to be released? That’s even a…
