Vice President Kamala Harris rushed to CNN early yesterday morning (Nigerian Time) to reassure American voters after President Joe Biden came out from a horrific debate with Donald Trump that saw many gasping over the mental capacities of the incumbent president. The once very articulate Biden was sometimes incoherent forcing his challenger, to mock at one time, […]

I attended the wedding of a late friend’s daughter a couple of weeks ago. As she walked the aisle to solemn, spiritual music, my mind wandered, for some strange, inexplicable reasons, to her birth – it was not the first time I was attending the wedding of someone I had carried in my arms as a child […]

IT was different 16 years ago. Very different. At that time, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was relatively new and walking where angels feared to tread. That was unusual for a government institution, especially a law enforcement agency.  So unusual that one of Nigeria’s most courageous social crusaders, Gani Fawehinmi, a thorn in government’s […]

EARLIER in the week, there were reports of massive protests in Kenya, an East African country. The protests were actually not new, having begun in 2023, in reaction to bids by the government of Kenya to raise taxes. According to the 24-hour English news channel, Al Jazeera, the protests signify a major shift in Kenya, where, previously, […]

JULIAN Assange, an innocent man walked out of an American-staged court this Monday, June 24, a free man after spending1901 harrowing days in British captivity. He spent those hellish days in the British Belmarsh maximum security prison in a 2×3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day. Not even a dog deserves such inhuman treatment. The […]