[Eat your heart out in the Great Beyond], “Alistair [Cooke]; you don’t get to the top by marrying someone…” - Arianna Huffington Katharine Graham, Commencement Speaker, University of Florida, Spring 1971. [The first U.S. college Commencement Address I ever listened to was by Katharine Graham, late Publisher of the Washington Post at the 1971 University of Florida Commencement. My Sig.Other […]
May 21, 2013
Passengers stranded as strike cripples airports – The Nation
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/passengers-stranded-as-strike-cripples-airports/ Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 3:16 p.m. [GMT]
May 21, 2013
Oklahoma tornado disaster: Seven children ‘drowned’ in school hit by twister
Death figures have been revised down to 51 as of 9:30 a.m. E.S.T., and revised further down. Children are thought to have become trapped in school basement they thought would give them shelter LAST UPDATED AT 12:28 ON Tue 21 May 2013 SEVEN young children are believed to have drowned in the basement of […]
May 21, 2013
Banning of Hijab by Lagos State Government: still more comments
Please note that subsequent comments will be added to these but they will be dated. Some readers have suggested I keep the forum open as long as comments come in as a lot of us are learning from the wide scope of information being offered. You may, therefore, look in from time to time to check […]
May 20, 2013
Boko Haram Terrorism: politicizing insecurity in the Nation – D.H. Habeeb
That the country is in the throes of a deadly and suffocating state of nationwide insecurity is beyond debate; that, at least, is agreed upon by all. How to stop the fiendish onslaught on lives, the large-scale destruction of property and the institutionalization of fear as a daily prescription for the contingencies of living in […]
May 20, 2013
Ghana stampede kills four at at TB Joshua’s event – The BBC
BBC News Africa, 20 May 2013. Police say they were overwhelmed by the large crowd when a stampede killed four people at a church in Ghana’s capital, Accra, on Sunday. Thousands of people flocked to the evangelical church for “holy water”, which they believed had healing powers, leading to the crush. “All of us were caught by […]
May 20, 2013
Remembering Pini Jason who “wrote anything he liked”, and it always attracted wide readership – Harpostrophe Works
http://issuu.com/harpostropheworks/docs/pinisophy. Monday, May 20, 2013, Noon [GMT]
May 19, 2013
The Hijab Controversy in Nigeria: Yisa Ajao
Dear Fausat Sulaiman, Salam alaikum, waramatulhi, wabaratuhu, Your comments on my contribution on the subject of hijab in schools make me think you are a somewhat boastful and rather pugnacious Muslim sister. I ask: where is your man? This is because you asked, “where are my women?” Because I am a Muslim, I am not […]
May 19, 2013
Coming: days of reckoning for Nigerian looters?
Protest rocks US Embassy in Abuja Christian Okeke -Abuja The Tribune, Friday, May 17, 2013 Protesters in their hundreds on Thursday stormed the United States Embassy in Abuja to seek foreign sanctions against perceived corrupt public officeholders including some serving cabinet ministers in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan. The protesters who were […]
May 18, 2013
“Hagiographers, foreign ‘African experts’ … have confined Chinua’s achievement space into a bunker over which hangs an unlit lamp labeled ‘Nobel’” – Soyinka
SaharaReporters Interview Exclusive: Achebe A Celebrated Storyteller, But No Father Of African Literature, Says Soyinka Sahara Reporters, New York, Saturday, May 18, 2013. Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu Before The War; Genocide, And Other Issues Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa’s most well known […]
May 22, 2013
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