By Modupe Laja Ever done something that captured your whole attention? It kept you doing that for hours and just couldn’t stop! Maybe, you went online and got hooked on Solitaire- a card game, or you started reading a novel, “We won’t fade into the darkness” by TJ Benson. You could simply be immersed in […]
By Abdulkhaliq Olanrewanju “Las Las, na everybody go chop breakfast,” “You go chop breakfast, I am not capping,” “Breakfast na national cake.” These are rather common lyrics from Nigerian pop songs which depict, well, “breakfast” as what everyone must experience. Truly, almost everyone has experienced disappointments one way or the other. We are all humans
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By Abdulafeez Olaitan Professor Wole Soyinka has been appointed ‘Arts Professor of Theatre’ at the New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), effective from September 1. As a full-time Arts Professor, the Nobel laureate has become the first ever Nobel prize winner to be part of NYUAD. The Nigerian novelist, poet and human rights activist joins
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By Justice Esiri Serena Williams, the 40-year-old American professional tennis player revealed in a recent Vogue Photo Interview that her iconic tennis career is finally ending. Although Williams has not announced an exact retirement date, it is widely believed that she will hang up her tennis rackets after this year’s US Open, which runs from
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By Ibidunni Thaabitah There was a boy called Johnson. Johnson believed that he could get away with any bad behaviour, so he took delight in deceit and falsehood. He had forgotten that “every day is for the thief, one day is for the owner.” Even though he was always cautioned, he continued to live as
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By Onyekwelu Peace A movie deep-rooted in history offers insights into what could have happened many years ago. Amandla is one that portrays life in South Africa during and after the apartheid era. It examines different characterisations like parental love, care, hatred, revenge, inequality and racial segregation. While faced with numerous inhumane treatments, Black folks
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By Abdulafeez Olaitan From Copernicus to contemporaries such as Galileo, Kepler and Huygens, up to the more recent Hubble and Sagan, understanding the principles of the telescope has been a long-time endeavour to man. The physics of optics and waves provides a sterling focal point to this understanding. Man has long been fascinated by not
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By Ibidunni Thaabitah Happiness, self fulfillment, impactfulness, and contentment are all desired by humans, but only few people are ready to pay the price. Everyone wants to be heard but not everyone wants to speak in a language that is generally acceptable. Everyone wants to be seen but not everybody is willing to make sacrifices.
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By Tomiwa Samuel Asuni Stay away from negative people! They: Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk. Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow. Any day you procrastinate, you lose that day’s success. Fake friends
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It’s no gainsaying – the brutal fact that music is God’s raised embre. Prayer and fasting in the religious corridors is commendable; but when it comes to music and musicry, the Father of Light, responds with an undulated benevolence. From time immemorial, music has been used as an elixirtic wand to ward off evil spirits.
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