Acclaimed Italian opera singer, Andrea Bocelli sent a strong message to Italians and the rest of the world recently when he had a free live performance in an empty Milan Cathedral, in Lombardy. The performance,…
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The brighter side (2) – homesickness is on vacation
Suddenly it has become a case of: absent from the hustle and present with family. Unlike what it was before this time when it was a case of present with the hustle and absent…
The brighter side (1) – earth is having some time to heal – where’s Greta Thunberg?
As the world looks for healing from the virus, we must ask ourselves how much of an enemy or an ally has the coronavirus been so far? As we grapple with the unprecedented interruptions to…
Judas Iscariot: how a descendant found closure on the family’s biggest burden of the ages
Good evening, sir. Why do people call you a sage? Where did you acquire the title? Is that what brought you here, my friend? No sir So what brought you here? I have a burden….
The looming condom scarcity, and what those ‘who no fit hold bodi’ must do
News flash: there’s a looming scarcity of condom. One of the top makers of the product, Karex Bhd, a Malaysian company that produces one in every five condoms used globally, says the coronavirus-induced lockdown ordered…
How far away are we from the ‘all die na die’ point?
Once upon a time there were four lepers who were placed in quarantine on the outskirts of a certain city. For some inexplicable reason, the social system that ought to have ensured that they didn’t…
What’s missing from Bill Gates recent recommendations to the United States on getting back her groove
Last week American Billionaire Bill Gates got our attention with his op-ed, which was published by the Washington Post. It was a necessary intervention especially given the fact that he had in a 2015 TED…
Forgive us, Funke Akindele
We thought you would be good sport. For the vast number of ‘jobless people.’ With too much time on our hands. Waiting for anything to break the boredom. That has been resting heavily on most…
Crown Liverpool FC as champions and release benevolent healing forces over the UK
You are not going to be popular with that suggestion, my friend I am not looking for popularity Don’t tell me you don’t know that some people are happy with Liverpool’s current status of suspended…
Who knows how the world will look after coronavirus?
Once upon a time, a lion took three other cats and went up a hill. Some moments later the whole body of the lion was transformed into the brightest white imaginable. His mane took on…