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First of all, may you be alive and well to experience the joy Secondly, may you not be blind but may your eyes see it Thirdly, may you make wise decisions today that will guarantee the joy experience tomorrow Fourthly, may the conditions around you today, favour your decision making today Fifthly, may persons and entities of purpose whose actions or inactions, complete the architecture,…
It was World Suicide Prevention Day last Friday, and as expected, widespread attention was fixed on the disturbing phenomenon. In Nigeria, in particular, some commentaries focused on the disturbing rise in the number of persons who have taken their lives recently. Some of the conversations centered on ways and means to effectively contain the ravaging monster. As further investigations into preventive measures continue, especially the…
Oh! Do you know I forgot that today is the 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon by al-Qaida operatives? You forgot? That’s what I just said. Why did you forget? Why did I forget? Don’t you forget things yourself? Please cut me some slack. You know I live in Nigeria, where some kinds of…
The operation to separate both girls, joined at the head since birth in August last year, was successful The team of medical experts from various disciplines as neurosurgery, plastic surgery, paediatric intensive care, and brain imaging, came from Israel as well as London and New York. Collaboration never looked so good. The girls can now be carried separately for the first time in over a…
There is no such thing as Ethical Yahoo Yahoo in the sense that there is nothing ethical about the criminal practice of obtaining by false pretense, valuable items that belong to other people. Yet there are those who imagine that asking a known thief to provide security for the commonwealth, has some merit. The idea is based on a principle in which a known thief…
The picture you see above is my neighbour’s reaction to the material we published last Monday. On Monday, we published the story about the green revolution in Kebbi State in which Governor Atiku Bagudu has initiated a program that would impact heavily on the environment in weeks, months and years to come. Leading the Governor’s wish of providing and distributing 40,000 trees across the state,…
Two important and related events happened last week in Lagos and Ibadan but not many persons knew about the second event as much as they did the first event. The first event was the signing- ceremony of the new sponsorship deal between the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF and communications giant, MTN. While the second event was the finals of the Nigerian Blind Football Championships, which…
Now in Kebbi State, The Governor there Heeded the cry Of the Environment And caused the Ministry To plant some trees Green… First of all, this a great attempt to green the state. It is another subtle reminder that those who bequeath the Green-White-Green national flag to Nigeria, wished we continued the greening process, in all ages. It is as if they knew that we…
Who told you that? Experts What experts? The experts behind the Global Work-Life Balance Index 2021 What did they say? To be honest with you, it is actually what they did not say. Ok, what did they not say? I will tell you what they said and you will tell me what they did not say Ok, fair enough They said the top 10 most…
Why? If the variant is not Mumu (fool) why would it choose this time to ‘shine?’ You are joking, right? No. Is there anything to joke about Covid? Or Delta or the new Mumu? Oh, oh, oh, because Mumu saw how everybody ‘hailed’ Covid, and how some people are already ‘shaking’ before Delta, it too wants to come and shine, at our expense. Mumu must…