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  This is not a Miranda warning but a song of goodwill from a waitress simply known as Miranda. Inside the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Marion Illinois, Miranda the waitress thrilled a customer to a beautiful birthday rendition. When Jared’s friends told Miranda “today is his birthday” they were probably expecting a simple happy birthday message but they were treated to a never-to-be-forgotten birthday rendition that is capable of brightening one’s lifetime. Listen to the song and give Miranda a round of applause.🎈 https://youtu.be/zFGee_1XFlE

  The remnants of the Revolutionary Left in Nigeria were recently dealt a devastating blow on the 2nd day of April, 2021, with the demise of the fiery activist, Yinka Odumakin. It is not that his death did not confound others of different orientations and ideological backgrounds, but the Leftists in Nigeria would probably lay claim to Odumakin as belonging to their primary constituency based on his antecedents and activism till death. The announcement of his death has left many in a state of shock, as there was no public knowledge of his prior ill health. On the same day, it was announced that another civil society activist, Innocent Chukwuma, bowed to the cold hands of death. It has been one death too many considering the fate that befell the same community of activists with the demise of some other ferocious fighters for human rights and revolutionary activism in the persons of Professor Abubakar Momoh and Bamidele Aturu who died a few years ago. However, news of Yinka’s death has co

The security situation in Nigeria has become wholly intractable. What started as an isolated case of insurgency in some parts of Borno State has become a national malaise rapidly expanding and threatening the fragile fabric of the nation called Nigeria. The human losses at present have befuddled our capacity to take records and there is hardly an accurate account of people already consumed by the violence of the men of the gun. Thousands of lives have been snuffed out by Boko Haram bombs and guns in the northeastern parts of the country. Suddenly, the North-West caught the fever of banditry, which is operating in a most deadly fashion, leaving behind sorrow, tears and blood everywhere the unscrupulous young agents of death have chosen to carry out their nefarious businesses. Katsina State, the home state of the President, has not been spared the horrors of banditry, killing and kidnap. The volumes of death, maiming and rape of women by violent herders have left the whole of the North C

The great poet Geoffrey Chaucer in one of his books asked, “if gold rusts, what would iron do? If Aso Rock, the current seat of power is no longer safe, what hope does an ordinary Nigerian have for his or her personal and property security? As Nigerians all over the world woke up to one of the most embarrassing news of burglary in Aso Rock where the current regime leader, Major General Muhammadu Buhari Rtd and some top government officials reside and conduct the government business, what was first thought to be one of those April fool scenarios (even in the month of May) became a reality.  At one point, I was expecting Buhari’s information minister who has lost the capacity to view Buhari’s incompetence through an objective prism to dismiss the incident as the figment of the critics’ peurile imagination but lo and behold the story was real as a frantic attempt was said to have been made by dare-devil robbers to burgle the house being occupied by Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Prof Ibrahim Ga

  When Tani Adewumi arrived in the US with his parents who fled the excruciating conditions of their poorly-managed, Boko Haram-ravaged country, Nigeria, he had no inkling of a life-changing dramatic turnaround that would transform his family. Days after their arrival in the US, Tani’s parents, Kayode and Oluwatoyin Adewumi faced a precarious condition, if they knew where their next meal would come from, they did not know where they would lay their heads on. They were poor, they were homeless until the City of New York (NYC) provided them a homeless shelter where Tani’s journey to stardom began. Right there in the homeless shelter, Tani was enrolled in school where he kept the right company of friends who enjoyed playing the chess game. 8 year-old Tani later emerged winner of the New York State chess championship for his age group. Thereafter, his story went viral. “A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men” says the scripture (Proverbs 18:16). Tani’s story has fe