When we were growing up, Mr. Tortoise was presented to us as a very wise fellow. For all intents and purposes, given his naturally slow disposition, his extreme slowness notwithstanding, his brightness, intelligence and cunning always found Mr. Tortoise coming out on top. Eventually however, even Mr. Tortoise would sometimes run out of luck. Mr….
At an annual White House Correspondent’s Dinner in 2011, Obama took an opportunity to mock Trump after releasing the long form of his birth certificate in response to Trump’s conspiracy theory that Obama was not a natural born American. Trump laughed quietly. It is believed that he caught the fire to run for president that…
When we were small, we looked to our parents for guidance in developing commonsense. At 16, many of us thought we had arrived and we began to defy our parents. Some of us recovered from the foolishness of our teenage years. Some did not. Those who refused to retrace their steps in those teen years…
The corridors of life are replete with individuals who must work for the people as they work for any particular government in power. No matter how good a government is, its term of office must come to an end either by term limits or in the case of dictatorship or monarchy, by death or an…
Thank you, Mr. President. We are grateful. Through the years, we have written essays. We have screamed from rooftops. We have argued in clubs, in bars, at dinner, and over several games of Scrabble and Draft. “Why,” we would always query, “is it impossible for us to have State Police in Nigeria?” I stumbled on…
Up to the point when the Commander of Apollo 13 called, America’s attempt to go to the moon for the third time had appeared to be a success. Then, suddenly, boom!—an explosion. An unforeseen problem arises and then, the call that now rings famous around the world for its deliberate calmness in the face of…
In ‘Julius Caesar’ by Shakespeare, the Soothsayer named Spurinna had been warning Caesar from the month of February to “Beware the Ides of March.”On the day of the Ides of March, the 15th of March,Caesar said mockingly to Spurinna—“the Ides of March are come.”Spurrina replied, “Aye, the Ides of March are come but not gone.”…
Long before 1885 when the major European powers gathered in Berlin to divide Africa amongst themselves at the infamous Berlin Conference, the United States of America had been in a solo quest to conquer the Western Hemisphere.Having displaced Native Americans, they went on in a ‘magnanimous’ act of benevolence to give them 2 percent of…
One way to understand the Maduro-Trump saga is to put it in historical perspective. To begin with, America is a bully nation. Think of it this way. They begin by taking all the land belonging to Indians and “give” them back 2%. They call it Reservation. They turn around and say to the European powers…
Part 1 The story begins with an eyesore which had dotted the Government Reservation Area, (GRA) landscape of Benin City for about 4 decades.Like a haunted building in horror movies, one wondered why previous efforts to bring it to life had been unsuccessful until Godwin Obaseki took one look at the building and decided that…
