happenings in our world
A certain minister of our Republic who for years was and is still is an Islamic sheik spent years preaching in mosques and elsewhere in support of Boko Haram, ‘no to western Education’, including stating publicly many times that he and others are happy when infidels are killed. Now in …
Some days ago I was listening to Lagos FM radio and heard somebody on the talk show lamenting why there is so much discrimination here. In particular he lampooned employers who would prefer to employ somebody with a foreign degree to somebody who studied in Nigeria and has the same …
I came back to Nigeria by Ethiopian Airlines through Nairobi airport, Kenya. I cannot forget that flight for I had the worst splitting headache of my life on it all the way to Lagos. Of course I had regrets leaving Dar-es-Salaam and the many friends I had made there. I …
I am forced to revisit the confusion surrounding the covid-19 vaccine. Since a great many of us are waiting to die sooner than later if Dr Vernon Coleman’s prophesy comes true I would simply say, thank God it will be in famous company that will include amiable German Chancellor Angela …
Several vaccines have arrived ‘to save humanity’ from covid-19, thanks to the Caucasians. My prayer to the Almighty is that He keeps giving them new ideas on how to preserve humanity even though we black Africans are currently bereft of ideas. But some of the same Caucasians are spreading disinformation …
One of the things holding black Africa back is wickedness. We simply hate ourselves. Just look back some three or four hundred years. When the white men came they met people who were enslaving anybody they could catch, trading in human beings, indulging in inter tribal and inter village wars, …
Yesterday I watched former Nigerian Senator Dino Melaye talking gibberish about the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine. He said Nigerians are receiving an AstraZeneca vaccine rejected by Europeans because of its low level of potency! The man actually believes covid-19 is real even though he is from a state whose youthful governor …
Incredible! That was what a supposedly close friend of a man, Kene, who had gone to stay a day or two in his village to attend the funeral of a relative told him. And what was he to take off? His mask! Kene was one of those residents of Lagos …
I decided to call and congratulate my eighty four year old senior colleague, a man we all call Alhaji, a gentleman if ever there was one, during the last sallah celebrations. I expressed regret that I was unable to be at the tennis club where we all play to eat …
The question is worth repeating. Is anybody looking for a cure for covid-19? At the moment there is a rush to discover a vaccine or vaccines. Several countries, including Nigeria, are said to be cooperating with the World Heath Organisation to find a vaccine. Russia claims to already have a …
