Today, the international community marks the 2017 World Humanitarian Day. Credit:ajala.ng This is a day set aside by the United Nations to reflect on our commitments toward helping others especially those whose vulnerability and helplessness call out for support and encouragement. World's Humanitarian Day is all about moving out of ourselves and meeting the needs of the next person, that person who is in genuine need. It is, even as much as we can remain within ourselves, about thinking of the other person; what we can do and are doing to impact upon them. World Humanitarian Day is about others, it is about selflessness. Our gifts, talents and resources must be seen to have some impacts in the lives of others. Critically, our resources should be used for the service of others. This is the reflection that today brings and the expression it excites. In the words of the great civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr, the most persistent and urgent question is "Wh...
The anchor of the town hall programme for Presidential candidates in the forthcoming 2019 general elections, The Candidates, Kadaria Ahmed has for sometime now since her latest engagement with the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP being in the eye of the storm. And the question is why? And how appropriate? For some people, especially those sympathetic to candidates of the PDP, her questions to their candidates were different from and more scathing than those asked the candidates of the rival Ill, so Progressives Congress, APC. To those so untowardly bothered by this view, I ask should Kadaria have been seen to ask Atiku and Obi the selfsame questions she asked Buhari and Osibanjo, and possibly in the same way? To this people, aside failing to understand that Kadaria Ahmed, being the anchor of the programme reserves the prerogative right to ask questions of her choice, also and more pathetic, failed to understand that there is no way coming from different bac...
There's a particular attachment for which a community, a society is known, that with which they are distinguished and for which they could be easily identified with. This is the people's way of life, it's their tradition and hence their culture! For some people, their culture had formed a better part of their lives through the process of committed deep instilling that has built in them a conviction as to believe and as well transmit along their respective genealogy of how such is an integral part of their lives and for which they should hold dear. The huge respect accorded some cultures as significant elements of heritage has made them proud possession assiduously passed from one generation unto the next, strictly retaining their tastes along the ages, inspite of the dynamism and susceptibility of culture to time. This is quite said of the Iwa-akwa (cloth-wearing) celebration, an important cultural identity of some communities in Igboland, Southeast Nigeria, undertaken lar...
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