Photo credit: the Punch Niger has formally left the International Criminal Court. It accused the judicial body in The Hague of selective justice. The Associated Press reports that the West African country submitted a letter to the United Nations on Monday, triggering the withdrawal process from the court’s foundational treaty, the \Rome Statute. “While the court had raised great hopes…
Photo credit: Businessday It’s no longer news that Mr Keir Starmer has resigned his position as Prime Minister of Britain. I pity the practice in the Western world. That’s because heads of government there neither take steps to perpetuate themselves in power nor seek to play on the people’s intelligence, at least in most cases….
I’m always fascinated at the fervour with which we prepare for funerals. So many people get into debts to bury their dead. A Yoruba saying goes that if a fraction of the care and money spent on funerals is spent on the invalid, most people will not be dying unnecessary deaths. And that’s true! The…
The market places are agog. No seller can honestly say they don’t have would-be buyers. It’s only the actual buyers that may not be forth coming. Even the chicken processors are in good business. See, the Id’el fitri is a chicken celebration. Chicken hawkers are busy, layers, broilers, etc. The chickens themselves are putting up…
History is the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. It’s also described as the whole series of past events connected with someone or something! Hmmm… Little wonder, our dealers, sorry leaders are trying their best to put History as a subject in our school syllabus. At least, we must read about all that…
5 billionaires went down with the Titan! The fact that they were super-rich doesn’t mean they were not human beings, does it? However, the reaction of most people was that if people could be so rich as to spend a whopping $250,000 to take a dive into the ocean to explore the wreck of a…
There were times in which prime ministers seemed to be on their way as soon as they’d arrived. The big strategic decisions the country faced were ducked or postponed. The public finances repeatedly wobbled, yet efforts to rationalize the tax system faltered in the face of vested interests, including farmers. Reforms to social security were trumpeted before being…
