Refugee becomes bank executive!

Photo credit: inform Lezan Tahir, a Kurdish refugee, has become a vice-president for customer service at Gate City Bank in downtown Fargo in the United States. INFORUM reports that Tahir’s family survived Saddam Hussein’s brutal mustard gas attack against Kurdish people in 1988. He was born in a refugee camp before he and his family made…

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My Take – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Buffer With dedicationYou get inspirationWhich results in aspirationTo your destination! Times may be toughRoads could be roughBut it’s saidAnd emphasizedWhen roads are roughIt’s only for the tough! When you try your bestYou could then restBeing assuredAll is sure! Don’t do crimeOr be coated in slime-infested roadsWhich might be loads! E’en to childrenYet to…

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Uhuru? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Cable NIGERIA : Not Yet Uhuru It is another may 29. Nigerians are expected to be celebrating another so-called democracy day! However, my belief is that one can measure a state by the quality of life of the poorest citizen in that state. In other words, does the poor have the ability…

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Secular? – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Punch Nigeria is said to be a secular state. That’s theoretical! However, in practice, the Nigerian state is religious. Or how do we explain the fact that apart from having churches and mosques, government involves itself with the staffing of these bastions of religiousity. In the past, government was sponsoring religious pilgrimages….

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It’s A Lie! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Punch Come off it!That’s my response to a friend who told me it’s pay day for some of our excretable excellencies. They really don’t belong to us again. It’s not as if we are doing yanga. But considering how they’ve been behaving since they went into the prison called state house, I…

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Ipanu! Incentives!! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Premium Times I really couldn’t believe when I heard the news of people being offered incentives to encourage them to help themselves and the community. Some people are sceptical in taking the covid vaccines. Meanwhile.the vaccines – apparently – do have a shelf life after which they might be less potent. It’s now…

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