Photo credit: the Guardian In much of West Africa, democracy survives not because citizens defend it, but because soldiers occasionally tolerate it. And you can take that to the bank because it is the brutal truth behind the region’s expanding map of military rule. from Mali to Niger, Burkina Faso to Guinea, coup-makers do not need tanks…
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…
Photo credit: The Guardian The day of reckoning came for Jan Jahanzeb and fellow Afghan Israr Niazal as they were jailed for the rape they committed last May. Daily Mail reports that the boys, both 17, raped a 15-year-old girl around Midlands Park A day after the rape, Jahaneb was in the park without a care…
I don’t really love talking about Nigerian politics and politicians. That’s for no other reason but my belief that the government should be allowed to commit its wonder, or blunder, as the case may be. However, recent happenings are forcing me out of my manhole. I’m sure those who are used to my writings would…
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…
