Category: Cartoon of the Day
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The Coronavirus Chronicles 3
The Second Pandemic The Second Pandemic is universal, malicious, self-inflicted, promotes ignorance, harmful, and sadly, is driven by Social Media.
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The Coronavirus Chronicles 2
Public Officers of the Federal Republic: Impressions, Perceptions and Wrong Messaging
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The Rise and Fall (for now) of Adamu
The saying ‘don’t kick him (her) while he is down’ does not apply to politicians because they are never down. They are fair game, they always bounce back, and they love it. The resumé of any politician worth his salt is a chronicle of ebbs and flows; a challenge here, an opportunity there; one step…
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Tribalism has a Twin
“In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.” ― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams “Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.” ― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love…
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The Smugglers' Prayer
Nigerians are paying for Government’s incompetence at our borders. Government through the agency of the Nigeria Customs Service, has the duty, among others, to secure and safeguard our borders. Border closure is to admit defeat in the fight against corruption. Nobody should be mistaken that smuggling had reduced since the border closure. Rather, the cost…
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Education in Nigeria 1 – Out of School Children
“About 10.5 million Nigerian children aged 5-14 are not in school.” (UNICEF) “Out of over 10.3 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, 60% of them are girls.” (Mrs. Adejoke Adefulire, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals) One child out of school, is one too many.
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On Lassa Fever…
The Lassa fever outbreak is a good example of collective inertia in Nigeria, year in, year out. We know the cause and enablers of this often fatal condition, and we know that every year, we have a rise in cases during the dry season. We are all to bear some culpability for the hundreds of…