Photo credit: Nigeria Constitution I can still recall the issue of Nigeria’s Afro Juju artiste who made a grammatical faux pas in the eighties. Since anything a star does becomes popular, his own case wasn’t different. Predictably, his next album was on that issue. As fate would have it, the record became a best seller….
Photo credit: Daily Mail The defense of a warped religious belief is so good. If not, how could a person have gone to a sex worker in a brothel, slept with her and allegedly accuse her of blasphemy. I gather he went with others to beat the lady before they set her ablaze. Methinks the…
Photo credit: the National The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2000 to 2008, 2012 to 2019, and September 2021. The detainees at the centre have suffered severe human rights abuses, and there are widespread reports of suicides and psychiatric illnesses. The Guardian reports that the number of…
Photo credit: Malaysia Today The United Nations disclosed that 117 million people were forcibly displaced in 2023. It warned that the number could increase if political changes do not occur. Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said, “These are refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, people being forced away by conflict, by persecution, by…
Photo credit: Vanguard The greatest honour we can give the late Chief MKO Abiola is to keep Nigeria one. We should respect each other. We shouldn’t have degrading mindsets about whichever ethnic group or tribe. We should know that we have fantastic Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba just like we have terrible ones of each stock….
Photo credit: Premium Times We need to thank God for little mercies. Many people had been alarmed that Children’s Day and Democracy Day would have been an avenue for Nigeria’s chief executives and their first ladies to waste whooping sums of money on needless celebrations. But, thanks to COVID 19, the monies have been saved…
Photo credit; Nairaland A friend sent a video clip to me which I in turn shared on Facebook and WhatsApp. You know what? I don’t believe it happened in real life. But I tend to believe it’s a mockery of the security situation in Nigeria. I believe Nigerians are an endangered species. Or should I…
