Photo credit: NBC News An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain excluded from secondary school education five years after the Taliban took over the country, a UN agency said Tuesday, renewing a call for an immediate restoration of their right to education. AP reports that UNESCO, the Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, said the…
Who is in the garden?A seventy+man! That the Nigerian President, Mr Mohammed Buhari is ill is no longer news. It is stale news. What I like about his illness is the fact that we are using it to show the rest of the world how caring Nigerians could be. Check out how many government officials…
That the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, made good news over the weekend is an understatement. I never knew Nigerians were so moralistic. However, most of those who spoke against the governor’s video did not see anything wrong in the travails of Sowore. I said it somewhere and I’m repeating it that a supposedly democratic…
According to the holy bible, when the oxen carrying the ark of God stumbled while being taken to Jerusalem, Uzzah tried to steady the ark. That was a violation of the divine law. He met with instant justice. The Lord killed him! God loved Moses. Why did He not let him see the promised land…
So, 31 lawyers of Northern extraction want to defend the embattled Kyari! Ah tor!! Nigeria is a country of ‘nothing is impossible. but then nothing sensible is happening. If not, the lawyers who are supposedly learned ought to know it’s only lawyers who have been inducted into a US bar that can defend an accused….
Powerful moments at the conclusion of the Gauteng International Book Festival 2023 in Soweto as the Sol Plaatje European Union finalists share their poetry with a full house. Congratulations Abigail George for taking first prize!
I am alone. I stand alone. I achieved it. I am excellent. But poets, what do you believe in? There are days when I am not myself. When I speak terrible Czech. Mouthing, ‘I need you’. The trajectory shifts. I find arrows in my right hand. My sister is not here. I testify my heart…
