…Musing on what can be done to secure our community and national safety On the evening of 7 July 2014, whilst slaving over my master’s dissertation at The Forum Library of the University of Essex, Southend, UK, a young man…
I read the Pantami story and the Presidency’s defence of his youthful indiscretions and I shook my head. Pantami is lucky to have something he did as a young man forgiven just like that. Me, my sins as a 16…
I’ve watched many post-apocalyptic movies that fill me with dread and I am always glad those are movies. As I watch and shiver, I tell myself, these are movie scenarios that can never happen in real life. How can there…
The invitation was give your life to Christ and you will become perfect and all your troubles will disappear. I did but found that my life didn’t become trouble free neither was I perfect. Even though I remained steadfast in…
President Muhammadu Buhari has finally broken his silence on the controversy surrounding Sheik Isa Ibrahim Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, over inciting statements he made against Christians. He is also alleged to have supported Al Queda and Boko…
What is a scar? A scar is both knowledge and reminder; knowledge about an incident, often ugly or painful and a reminder of that knowledge. Bridget Oyefeso-Odusami’s book, Built for the Storm: Journeying through Life’s Wounds, Healings and Scars is…
…Thoughts on beauty and emancipation from unnecessary shakara A very good friend of mine got married some years ago while I was out of the country, let’s call her Joy. I had to make do with viewing the pictures and…
Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted on all charges in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin faces up to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder, up to 25 years for third-degree murder and up to 10 years for…
I read a recent report about a woman who killed her own mother; the woman was said to have been told by her pastor to kill her mother because the mother is responsible for the setback in the woman’s life.…
A friend narrated a story to me recently, her mother had been brought up by her elder sister, they shared the same mother but different fathers and there was a huge age difference between them. Her aunt was already a…
