"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden itself."…
On the night of 12th December 2015 in the city of Zaria, Kaduna state, Sheik El Zakzaky, the leader of the 10 million-strong Shia muslim community in Nigeria, was shot, brutalized and dumped in a wheelbarrow.
He barely escaped with his life but sadly, according to Iranian government sources and the New York Times, his wife, two of his sons and no less than one thousand of his shia muslim followers were not so lucky.
"Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when…
"True love is very rare. If you ever find it, hold on to it, appreciate it, nurture it, express it and cherish it.
"I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by…
"My identity has been constructed from my own sense of otherness, whether cultural, racial or sexual. The three aspects are not separate within me. Photography is the tool by which…
"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it,, malice may distort it, but there it is."
______________ Sir Winston Churchill.
Yet who precisely is Abel? The answer is simple and clear: Abel is Gideon Akaluka, the young man from Benue state who was dragged out of a Kano police station by a barbaric mob and whose head was cut off and placed on the end of a long pole for allegedly desecrating the Koran.
"The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favour to the learned;…
Is it any wonder that on October 12th 1960, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Saurdana of Sokoto and the Premier of the Northern Region, said
''Do not call a conspiracy what these people call a conspiracy, neither fear ye their fear but sanctify the Lord your God in your heart and Let Him be your only fear"- ISAIAH 8:12
In an essay titled ''Afenifere: A Syllabus Of Errors'' which was written in 1998 and published in Gamji.com, Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi wrote the following.
“It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The…