History ● Conjectures ● Insights
Long before Osinachi Nwachukwu closed her eyes for the last time last week, she reminded Christians to do so whenever they are worshipping God! Many definitions have been given to the concept of worship but the term is being used in this context to refer to the act whereby Christians appear before God, singing songs to him. And addressing him with carefully chosen words and…
It’s exactly 15 years ago today that my friend and brother, Tony Ekuma entered the long tomorrow and joined the holiday by the sea. We have missed him in ways we cannot explain but we continue to be thankful for the condition of his wife, Lydia and their children Joseph and Peniel with the lingering assurance that we are nearer to our eventual reunion than…
The answer is you What do you mean, me? Am I Man City FC or Liverpool FC? Because Man City has not kept their distance from Liverpool FC, your mind is thinking of the slap thing, abi? Exactly. Man City will not like to be ‘slapped’ because Liverpool has covered the distance Between her and Man City like Will Smith did before the slap landed…
Family and friends will be burying the remains of Olufemi Attah this morning at Atan Cemetery in Yaba, Lagos but what will Femi remind us of? And who will he remind us about? Femi will remind us of the power of the regular. The power of the familiar that is easily taken for granted. The power of just being available and within easy reach. And…
Olufemi Attah fell in the line of duty. He didn’t waver in his duty to his family, immediate and extended. He didn’t waver in his duty to his employers, Rahamaniyya Oil and Gas Limited. He didn’t waver in his duty to humanity and he didn’t waver in his duty to his God. He checked all the relevant boxes before he dropped his earthly tabernacle for…
Simon Doyle (Armie Hammer) vents thus about the unsettling actions of Jacqueline De Bellefort (Emma Mackey), his former flame: “It’s indecent, what she’s doing. And melodramatic…” Then goes on to express his love for Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot) almost in the same breath before that flight of fantasy was suddenly aborted and he was forced to return to the present when Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) confronted him…
Linnet Ridgeway (Gal Gadot): “She’s followed us again.” It sounds weird and spooky to hear comments like “You’re being followed.” The look on Linnet’s face when she realized that she and her husband were being followed, says it all. The feeling can be so unsettling and disquieting. It is doubtful if the passengers on the Kaduna-bound train that was attacked last Monday night by terrorists…
It is not an egg versus egg situation. Neither is it entirely an egg versus apple situation. Yet some clues Agatha Christie left us, which were masterfully coordinated by Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Emma Mackey, Armie Hammer, Sophie Okonedo, Letitia Wright, Tom Bateman, and others in Death on the Nile offer some interesting points for interrogation and reflections as we continue to process the national…
Are you serious? About what? Of all the things you can talk about at this time you chose to dissect Mo Salah’s disappointment? What’s wrong with dissecting Mo Salah’s disappointment? DMSD. Don’t you like how it sounds? Typical. Very typical. You will not talk about Victor Osimhen’s disappointment, your own disappointment or other significant home-based disappointment but Mo Salah’s disappointment that Egypt failed to qualify…
Perhaps I should have written about the terrific tomato plant when I first noticed it many weeks ago. Perhaps that would have given readers the opportunity to spend more time on the timeless lessons espoused by the tomato plant (I only wrote about it this week.) Alas, the inevitable has happened – the tomato plant that stood upright for many weeks, defying many formidable situations…