How in God's name, did this happen?
The media feeding frenzy around the West Virginia mine disaster just shows how rumour, speculation and incomplete information plays around with people's emotions.
View ArticleOld-age Rum's field day
A hapless septuagenarian was heckled during an important speech to his supporters, then accused of lying. How rotten! This is in empathetic concern and commiseration. Why badger a poor old man?
View ArticleInsemination Tax Credit
If the President of the United States is really serious about strong marriages, he should stop going after gay marriage and rather strengthen marriage through Insemination Tax Credits.
View ArticleArise! Sir easy
The Chairman of easyGroup of companies is knighted in the Queen's birthday honours list- I suppose a new business can come out of this accolade - easyHonours?
View ArticleThe new ball order - Football meritocracy
The World Cup levels the playing field of political powers and undue influence - little countries make minced meat of behemoths and if you cannot play you get beaten and go home. The Olympics has...
View ArticleEvidence of good medical research
That testtube baby is 28 today - that was research done in Europe for the benefit of all - hopefully, America and see through the emotion of stem cell research just as Europe did yesterday.
View ArticleExplaining a stolen lunchbox
A hapless stranger gets mobbed and killed because some other stranger believes that his manhood has been stolen. This a part of reality in some parts of Nigeria. Unbelievable but true.
View ArticleCondi knows nothing about birth pangs
Bombs and hostilities continue as birth pangs of a new Middle-East as the midwife returns to the woman in travail and extended labour to probably deliver the baby still-born. No new Middle-East can...
View ArticleBack to James Blake and Rosa Parks - 1955 to 2006
Black students are asked to give up their seats for white students 51 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. America, we've got a serious problem.
View ArticleAn admission in remission
Admitting the CIA secret prisons did exist leaves one wondering how many more admissions would completely destroy the last ounce of respect America can show.
View ArticleSomehow, strange sexualities excite Africans
They publish names, accuse people in high places, revile those caught in the act and the elders on the village might just ignore all this because it is just none of their business.
View ArticleThe Cult of the Burnt Fornicator II - Judgment Day
The leader of the Christian Praying Assembly where sex sinners get doused with petrol and set alight in Nigeria is to hang. Would this be a lesson to those charlatans who seek to deceive?
View ArticleA class struggle disguised as news
Class still counts for much in England even though it is not made too obvious to notice. The Daily Telegraph dabbles in these murky waters for an ulterior motive and one is not impressed.
View ArticleNigeria: Another two oil cremations
News of Nigerians caught in the flames of oil burning amongst them hits the wires - two days in a row.
View ArticleNigeria: Ribadu and kids get bundled out of NIPSS graduation
The erstwhile EFCC chairman gets bundled out of the NIPSS graduation cermony after the government fails by all other means to stop his graduation. His wife, 6 children and his guests all get pulled out...
View ArticleThought Picnic: Our Truth
The happenings in Gaza with the media grab by both Israel and Gaza is summed up in one sentence by the Israelis - We are showing the world our truth. Is anyone entitled to their own truth - this is the...
View ArticleNigeria: Why Candidates Fail Our Examinations - WAEC
WAEC lists why candidates fail their examinations, I think they are unto something very true.
View ArticleA relocation from the cacophony
From noise to more amenable people, the results confirm what would be an aggressive course of treatment, it is Day 9 at the hospital.
View ArticleThought Picnic: The Americe First Principle in Fort Hood
The trigger for the killings at Fort Hood was pulled long before the guns went off, can the family of the US Army be a family of siblings that feel equal and respected no matter their diversity?
View ArticleA walk of healing
Looking at my foot today, we came to the conclusion that it had healed in a relatively short time it could be classed as a miracle of healing.
View ArticleCaught in the middle of feuds
The parents'feuding takes hold of the news of a son's recovery - really there is enough going on here to be burdened with what is going on there.
View ArticleNigeria: Sahara Reporters comes of age
Sahara Reporters the guerilla news agency that reports on Nigerian issues gets referenced on a global news network. Congratulations come with the advice to make some crucial changes.
View ArticleBeaten to the first
If I did not know about today I would have believed what I read earlier today - how one might wanted it to be true but then we would not have that day, would we?
View ArticleNigeria: Journalism, law deaths and swimming
News stories that digress with tenous links, through the death of promiment lawyers to that difficult subject of blacks, yes, black who cannot swim.
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