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I’m so emotional right now. Please tell me who threw the curved ball that cost US sprinter Sha’ Carri Richardson her prized place at the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics Games? Why are you looking for someone to blame? The young lady has already apologized for using marijuana But why did a reporter break the news of her mother’s death to her in the middle of the…
Suddenly, a previously nameless cow out of Pico Rivera in California has a name, Free. She was named Free by Grammy Award-winning songwriter, Diane Warren. She once belonged in a slaughterhouse but she will now belong in a cow sanctuary. Before her new status, she faced the possibility of slaughter every day but now, she will be permitted to live out the rest of her…
Who leaked former British health minister Matt Hancock’s kissing photo, and why? The man has lost his coveted position, why don’t you guys give him the space he needs to properly process the episode, learn his lessons and move on? Then you don’t know how these things work What things? What are you talking about? You haven’t heard of the fetish of distraction? Do you…
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Media personality, Toke Makinwa is not happy about women who age-shame other women that are ‘almost 40, like 40 is a plague…’ She is concerned that these same persons do not ageshame certain women in other climes. My neighbour agrees with her. He thinks age-shaming is cruel. That it is some kind of torture, producing indescribable pain. He believes age-shaming suddenly removes the lustre one…
Where is the ostrich that gave birth to a lioness? Where is she who did not cover the nakedness of her daughter after she was raped by her boyfriend when the little girl was only 12years old? Where is she who refused to take up the fight of her daughter who had not been properly taught about the deep evil resident in the heart of…
From one of the world’s top destinations for those passionate about paradoxes, comes another top offering: Chidinma! Served on a platter one can hardly associate with the essence of the name. For Chidinma means ‘God is good’ yet in the matter of the recent murder of Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga the bearer of that name is now being associated with something so dark and…
The ban had already put him in a tired place following loss of revenue from his daily twitter activity. He had gone through the range of emotions – anger, denial, sadness, resentment, bitterness, acceptance and the rest. He told himself he would no longer exhaust his emotions on the matter. Thankfully, he remembered something his pastor told him in the thick of Covid-19 last year….
It is an important move that proves that relentlessness is an important part of the football club’s DNA. Coming after losing the UEFA Champions League trophy to premiership rivals, Chelsea, the move removes any doubt as to where the club’s ambition is headed. And commends itself to everyone or institution that has suffered any kind of setback, to keep going. Keep trying. And keep pushing….
Who made such an audacious assertion? You never heard of the data survey firm IHS Markit? After crunching the numbers, they put out a statement in which they said among other things that “The global economy has reached an important milestone in the second quarter of 2021, surpassing the pre-pandemic real GDP peak attained in the fourth quarter of 2019.” Then the world must be…