A Nigerian pharmacist, Emem, has narrated a particular incident that made her realize she could never marry a man she was dating. “When he was dragging road with governor’s convoy and the soldiers pointed guns at us yet he was shouting “I dare you to shoot” with me beside him. I was shouting “don’t…
Image by Daniel McCullough. I got one of the worst text messages a parent can receive at 12:05 p.m. on April 17. “Active shooter.” My daughter is in her final two weeks of undergraduate studies at Florida State University, where a shooter, later identified as FSU student Phoenix Ikner, opened fire. As I write, still…
Sometimes, like Emmanuel, we go to church to pour out our frustrations to God. However, this fateful Sunday, those plans were quickly forgotten the moment he laid eyes on an angel named Joy. It was as though the raging storm in his mind instantly calmed, and what followed was a peace he couldn’t quite explain…
The kind of pace that propelled teenage sprinting phenom Gout Gout to break decades-old Australian records and earned him an invitation to train with Olympic champion Noah Lyles ended up costing him in his season finale. The handicapper’s calculations on Monday achieved what few of Gout’s rivals could do all southern summer, making it too…
President Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria on Monday, after a two-week working visit to Europe. The president was received on arrival at the Presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 9.50 p.m. by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and other senior government officials….
