In these countries, the wearing of facemasks is optional. And as in many optional things, the majority of people tend to take the easy route out.What a tense but refreshing break it was!Coming from a country that was strict about the wearing of...
Why are so many people inclined to criticise others and in some cases fast to impose their value systems on others and denounce them as good for nothing souls?Why are some people prone to closing their hearts to different approaches and views? Is it...
However, his moment of glory quickly fizzled into a damp squib, thanks to World Athletics for rejecting the record.What could have gone on in his mind when the bad news was broken?It would not be farfetched to believe that, cooped in his bedroom with...
It seems as if they have it all together. Are they in a good place though? Or are they going through a fleeting moment of illusion, which they mistakenly consider as a near-perfect kumbaya friendship?Unbeknown to them, is their bubble about to burst?...
What do you think should be done with murderers?In John Grisham’s novel entitled, A Time to Kill, a man killed two young men after they raped his ten-year old daughter. A character named Row Ark felicitously asked a minor protagonist, a lawyer...
That view, which I must admit, sounded oddish at the time it raptured my ear drum, has since mushroomed in value and found a special place in the deepest recesses of my psyche.Principally because of the weight of its truth! When one’s moment of...
Though considered a handy tool for the bad boys; burglars and robbers, for many, facemasks continue to be a prized possession, principally because they have been effective in saving lives.Inevitably, because of masks, we have failed to recognise...
Projecting his customary charm, confidence and trademark nonchalance, the erudite president with a king-size ego has assiduously refused to entertain questions from the media about what happened on his farm.On June 9, 2022, in what was seen by many...
Commandeered by a brutal worldwide code of moral brittleness that sees nothing untoward with irrevocably obliterating one’s rampart of respectability to score hideous points.A repressive, exploitative and combative infrastructure that is undeniably...
In a desperate effort to boost his reputation, McCarthy resorted to spinning mischievous subterfuge. He made the humiliating and politically suicidal mistake of picking a fight with an institution that thrives on drawing out the pugilistic instincts...
One of his songs that I find easy to naturally connect with is titled “Man in the mirror.” Part of the lyrics go, “I’m starting with the man in the mirror, I’m asking him to change his ways, and no message could’ve been any clearer...Take...
My view is, if you can’t find it in this cradle of bustling roadside micro-entrepreneurship, whatever it is that you might be looking for, you would probably not find it in any other village. With little social welfare in this country, and a few...
The evolution of the English language has birthed portmanteaus such as bromance, sismance and womance to reflect a non-sexual intimate bond between people of the same gender. However, the focus of this article is on platonic relationships in...
In the 20th century, it was popularised by a British cosmologist named Martin Rees and an American astrophysicist named Carl Edward Sagan. This aphorism helps people appreciate that human-to-human interventions are not exclusively binary, that life...
It has had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor - bare.” Wouldn’t you say that through his careful choice of words, Hughes, the logophile, succeeded in helping the reader visualise how tough life...
Apart from serving as emperors, one more thing they had in common was the fact that they had 31-day calendar months named after them. The original version of the Latin expression is attributed to the assassination of Julius Caesar, while the shorter...
This great leader cautioned his followers about a group of highly regarded individuals in the leadership space. He said: “All the things they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds, for they do not practice what they...
In a trice, the desperate senator had flashed that super card of convenience, which in his view, was the magic wand required to guarantee him special treatment.What exactly is the ‘do you know who I am’ card? It is an intimidating technique that...
Immaculately dressed in a three-piece dapper suit and a white shirt, Will looked every inch the much-loved debonair celebrity. In an event that was telecast live and held the world spellbound, millions failed to parse what was going on as they beheld...
Perhaps it is the aversion for an unaccountable elite club of aggressive and oppressive untouchables, that motivated Lord Bingham, the former Senior Law Lord with the House of Lords, to intone, “There are countries where the judges always agree...
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