Reflections From A Wreath Laying Ceremony
There’s no year I attend the Wreath Laying Ceremony marking the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration that I don’t shed a tear or two. Secret tears. Yes, secret, as men…
There’s no year I attend the Wreath Laying Ceremony marking the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration that I don’t shed a tear or two. Secret tears. Yes, secret, as men…
The inauguration of the 46th US President in Washington DC takes place against the backdrop of 25,000 national guard troops protecting democracy as if America is post-Saddam Baghdad. The most…
There’s a short video you can find online that brings tears to my eyes. It features soldiers of the Nigerian Army, four spry young men, the type of whom the…
December 30, 2020, the New York Times published an article about Franco A, a German neo-Nazi living a double life with two different identities. While he was a lieutenant in…
I hate to see professors die. And in recent days, we have lost three of them to the strange ailment called COVID-19, currently ravaging the world. Within two weeks, we…
When the year 2020 popped out of the womb of time, nobody knew that it was going to be what Yoruba people call Ogbologbo. Rough and tough. Unpredictable. Hungry and…
Life is all about perspectives and 2020 gave us a wide spectrum of how life can look. It was a year that caught everyone by surprise. We did not see…
As of December 28, 2020, Africa was the only continent where a single shot of the coronavirus vaccine had not been administered on anyone. It could remain like that for…
Permit me to use the popular lingo now in town in the headline of this piece. I hear the younger generation talk of las las, when they speak of a…
The current administration rode into power in 2015 with a basketful of electoral promises that put Nigerians in a dreamland. It over-promised and has, so far, under-delivered. Not even the…