She ‘married’ her best friend’s dad!
OPEN marriages work when one partner, usually the wife, turns a blind eye to her husband’s shenanigans. In most cases, the husband is usually careful not to push his luck by always flaunting his trophies. In a few cases, however, wives have been known to forgive the humiliation of a serial adulterer all in the name of love and a sad excuse of hanging on to the marriage.
Army 38 and this unjust land
SCHOLASTIC write up sir. Oh there was a country called Nigeria! It died many years ago. It is about time we discuss the terms of our co-existence if not we are a nation sitting on a time bomb that might explode some day. Our leaders don’t mean well for her people. Your generation perhaps have failed this country. It is about time we shift our paradigm —Augustin Odheni
Army 38 and this unjust land
AS I landed in Abuja on February 9, from Lagos, a senior journalist on board with me wore a pensive mood as he said the following words to me: “I am pan-Nigerian but certain things shake your faith like the advertisement in today’s edition of the Daily Trust”. It was an Obituary on page 46 of the paper by 70 members of ASP COURSE 14 for the late Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Francis Mobolaji Odesanya.
Soviet collapse and suicide-prone Nigeria
THE Soviet state was born in 1917 when the revolutionary Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian czar and established a socialist state in the territory that had once belonged to the Russian empire. In 1922, Russia proper joined its far-flung republics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The first leader of the Soviet state was the Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin,one of the greatest thinkers of the last century
The northern star called Dangiwa
I could be convinced if I were like you. If I could beg others to change their minds, begging would convince me, too. But I’m as immovable as the northern star, whose stable and stationary quality has no equal in the sky. The sky shows countless stars. They’re all made of fire, and each one shines.
Dipo Fashina and Shehu Sanni: A connecting thread
HALF of students who went to the University (University of Ife and later Obafemi Awolowo University) in the late 70s up till the early part of this millennium would not forget the name Dr. Dipo Fashina, that legendary teacher of Logic in the philosophy department and a rare gift to humanity.
