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...
Two people were said to have lost their lives on Wednesday, December 28, following a fight between an Igbo man and a Hausa man in the Gariki axis of Enugu. The incident which was alleged to have happened after a disagreement between one Ifeanyi and one Ali led to the later stabbing the former severally in the stomach after his victim insisted that he must pay N500 complete for using the abattoirs. Mr Ali, a meat seller, had come to the abattoirs inside Gariki to slaughter his cow. And as was custom there, he was expected to pay N500 but when Ifeanyi demanded for the said money, he was said to have given him N400. However, Ifeanyi insisted that the pay be completed to which Ali was alleged to have strongly refused. A fight ensued and at that point Ali brought his dagger and stabbed Ifeanyi severally on the stomach. Ifeanyi was said to have died on the spot. Angered by this, some mob descended on the Hausa man and lynched him and immediately rushed to the mosque in the vicinity ...
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...
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