Category: Inspiration

Gbajabiamila Gives a car to Physically Challenged lawyer

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The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday, brought smiles to the face of a physically challenged lawyer, Mr. Kamarudeen Idowu, presenting him with a car and promising him a driver. Gbajabiamila, presenting the Toyota Corolla to the lawyer in Lagos, said he would pay for the driver for one year. Idowu lost his legs to polio at the age of three. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Idowu used to beg for alms in different parts of Lagos to fend for himself and pay for…

At 55: Saraki most vilified, Yet The Best By Chuks Okocha

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The President of the Eighth Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, is constitutionally the number three citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Yet, he is, perhaps, the most vilified by organs of the government. He is hardly allowed to settle down to direct the affairs of the Senate and, indeed, the National Assembly. But Saraki is undaunted. He has continued to move the Senate from one height to another. The eighth Senate under his leadership has broken many grounds when compared to other times in the National Assembly. Saraki means…

Islamic Scholar Tells Parents To Invest More on Children’s Upbringing

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Muslims have been advised to increase their investment into the upbringing of their children, to ensure a more prosperous society and better secured future. An Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Mohammed Bn Yahaya made the call on Sunday when he delivered a lecture at the Al-Habbibiya Muslim society in Abuja. He warned that continuing neglect and failure of parents to instill proper values in the children and younger ones ,contributed to increasing corruption, insecurity and social vices in the society. “let’s inject values into the hearts of the young because of their…

Another Season Of Hate And Severance: World War III, Here We Come! By Niyi Osundare

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The journey from hate to holocaust Is perilously short…. (from ‘Ode to Hate’) Trail of Tears The two-line snippet above came to me (or was it I who walked up to it?) in my poem “Ode to Hate”, written in the mid-nineties, provoked by the wrenching crises of the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflicts. As I watched throngs of displaced human beings, harried, traumatized, and dispossessed, being loaded on those long trains to refugee camps and other wildernesses of agony and misery, my mind went forcibly back to similar scenes between 1939 and…

ARE YOU HAVING AN EMOTIONAL AFFAIR? JUST A REMINDER.

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By Imaam Nurudeen Ibn Uthman. If anybody asks you this question, you may go angry or livid because it sounds so insulting. Why? You are never the type of person that would have an affair outside your relationship/marriage. Well, that is because you do not know what an emotional affair is. Emotional affair does not involve sex. It happens to people who are in courtship or engaged or married but very fond of somebody else who is not their spouse but if care is not taken and brake applied, it…