Mr. President, your Foreign Minister, Mr. Ojo Madueke, has summarily dismissed the idea of the internationalization of the peace initiative, arguing that the use of foreign mediators would amount to the surrendering of our sovereignty…
Clara sat right opposite me sipping from a bottle of Guinness. The combined effect of the physical act of the inadvertent unbuttoning and the mild exclamation at the sight of Obama’s portrait had unleashed an inexplicable passion in me for Clara….
And it came to pass that there was great rejoicing over the solomonic wisdom of Iborilech, son of Ahimelech the Jebusite. And Moloch Yaddie said unto Iborilech: “verily verily I say unto thee, today you will be with me in my Paradise on the Rock”. And it came to pass that Beelzebub granted unto Moloch Yaddie and his children their request of a heavier yoke…
Human nature and human relationships are buoyed with conflicts. We can never do without them otherwise human existence would be boring. But when some conflicts become so entrenched and seem to be dragging on for too long thereby acting as a cog in the wheel of progress…
I was a church boy who didn’t have the nerves to rebel like Rastafarians, and the little courage in me was snuffed out in med school where I was literally banned from wearing jean trousers…
The assurances of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua notwithstanding, an indication of the possibility of Nigeria not achieving the Millennium Development Goals was given recently…
The entire world, during the better part of June 2009, saw what appeared to have been choreographed post election protests from the streets of Tehran Iran. And despite ostentatious efforts on the part of the United States government at managing a proclaimed neutrality, there was no neutrality to be had…
No one could ever dance like Michael Joseph Jackson. We are lucky to have encountered such a genius on our pilgrimage here on earth. As he Michael Jackson is always “Startin Something”, we are sure that he would “thrill” the heavens, as his “Thriller” did us here!
Why are there rich countries and poor countries? Why do some fulfill their potentials in life and some don’t? Why are some kings and some slaves? Some become heads of corporations’ and some serve them, why? To some life is brutish and unfair, to some life is beautiful and good. Why?
Insofar as sub-Saharan African women are concerned, they generally do not look or feel comfortable or secured in the company of White men. It is as if they are not completely into the relationship…
It was no surprise to tennis realists that yet again the sisters prevailed in decisive fashion at the world’s oldest and most prestigious tennis championship…