Tahar Djaout was an Algerian journalist, poet and fiction writer who lived for just 39 years but his words will live forever. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group in his country for ostensibly always speaking the truth. He once said, “silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are […]

American pop singer-songwriter, Josh Rouse sang, ‘Too many things on my mind’. A line in the lyrics asked rhetorically, ‘Can we recover, what’s been lost?’. If what’s been lost is time, it may never be recovered. My thought  actually is to do a review of sports events in 2024 which I term the bitter-sweet year […]

It was the famous fabulist of the XVIIth century, Jean de La Fontaine who wrote about taking chestnuts out of a fire. Meaning to save one or thing from impending failure, destruction or failure. That is what exactly the Super Eagles are faced with in their quest to qualify for their seventh World Cup since […]

The Latin expression, ‘Requiem aeternum dona eis, translated in Eng- lish means, “Eternal rest grant to them.” That is the song I have this second Sunday of December, exactly 17 days to Christmas for my dear Edo State which once had a collosus, Brigadier-General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, now late, as a pillar of its prowess […]

Our forefathers ha¬d ways of passing messages to their children way back in history. An African Proverb says, “Look for a dark (black) goat in the day time because you may not (easily ) find it in the night”. Meaning, “You should always order your goals and follow them before it is too late to […]