By Babafemi Ojudu NEWS OF the death of Jesse Jackson has prompted a flood of tributes across the world. Many of them rightly celebrate a man who stood, for decades, at the barricades of the struggle for civil rights in the United States (US), marching, organizing, speaking, and insisting that Black lives carried the same […]
By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA IS like an orphan. A country without heroes. The political leadership over the decades have been held in suspicion by a frustrated citizenry whose situation simply gets worse. The country does not seem to have heroes that generations can look up to or can inspire. The famous German writer, Bertolt Brecht […]
By Bola BOLAWOLE WHILE MARKING his second June 12 or Democracy Day last June 12, 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu tried to remember the labours of our heroes’ past, so that their sacrifices may not appear to have been in vain. Good as his intentions were, he, nonetheless, stepped on toes. He did not remember […]
