I had decided not to post anything about COVID 19 again. Especially, given Nigeria’s untidy management of the scourge. However, when a handshake moves to the elbow, it becomes a wrestle. The death of an old school buddy has made me shatter my shell. He attended the reputable Baptist Academy, Obanikoro in Lagos, where he…
A number of sites exist in Cambodia where more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge during its rule of the country between 1975 and 1979. They are appropriately named the Cambodian Killing Fields. An estimated figure of between 500, 000 thousand and one million Rwandans were eliminated within 100…
With the advent of 2020 came a lot of welcoming gestures. Peoples went praying to whatever they believed in their various religions and irreligion. They topped it up with wearing their brand new clothes, eating their favourite dishes and imbibing their choice drinks. There was great hope that the year 2020 would be better than…
Photo credit: CNN US President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, after multiple shots were fired outside the venue, prompting a major security response and the arrest of an armed suspect. Outlook reports that Trump was rushed from the Washington Hilton after gunfire was heard near the ballroom where the…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Palestinians in Gaza held an election for the first time in 20 years as municipal elections were held there and in the West Bank on Saturday. UPI reports that people in Deir al-Balah, a city in central Gaza, voted for the first time since 2006 because it was the least destroyed area after…
Photo credit: The Zen Parent We’ve created a generation that sees danger everywhere. The irony is that in our desperate attempt to shield children from every possible harm, we’ve manufactured a generation less equipped to handle adversity than any before them. Walk through any playground today, and you’ll notice a profound quiet devoid of scraped knees and minor disputes…
There are KINGS and there are kings. Probably the most respected king in the south west is the Oba of Benin. And why is this so? I believe it’s because he doesn’t make himself available for just any event. He is not meddlesome. He minds his own business. That is not to say he doesn’t…
