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TOBI AMUSAN IN NATIONAL PRIDE, CELEBRATES HER CHAMPIONSHIPS GOLD MEDAL THE "BUGA" STLE TOBI AMUSAN in breaking the world 100 meters hurdles record in a swoop, twice in one day at the world Athletics Championships,  uplifted the mood of a nation in dire need of a jolt and a dose of joy and exhilaration and a jolt, she gave,in a blistering race that culminated in the shattering of the world record 12.12 and 12.06  seconds in succession with "dampeners"from those who are quick to chorus that the later was wind assisted,but who cares and who is listening here,because it doesn't really matter,she has the Championships Gold of a winner around her neck.   In her humility and humoured forthrightness she described herself as the "nearly girl" who always comes so close by whiskers but in one evening she gave her distractors and the world a rude and shocking awakening and showing that perseverance and self believe always pays off and has the last say. Full of nat...

 Here is a fantastic write up and revistation from the sometimes "shy/recluse" master of the art of writing,compelling and in the very best of fine prose. As an Uncle,I take the liberty of describing him as shy or a recluse for very personal reasons...could this also be a hint at a remake 👇👇👇 COCKCROW : THE RETURN OF A TRAIL BLAZER  By Dele Olowu The motion picture  has a fairly extended history in nigeria. However in technical and production terms, the first moving image to be shot entirely on location in nigeria, is Peter Igho’s widely applauded tv series, Cockcrow at Dawn. And yet the brief which was to inspire this mass appealing project , was as prosaic as they come. The Obasanjo government had in 1977 become quite committed to the acceleration of food production and national growth. And he was quite anxious to use the classic notion of the gentleman farmer, to which military minds are customarily beholden, as a means of popularizing and radicalising agriculture. ...

 

 

IKE EKWEREMADU... lending my voice and thought The trial of Ekweremadu and his wife was held in a London Magistrate Court on July 7, 2022  and subsequently moved in adjournment to August 7, 2022 but this time in a Crown Court,a Court of much higher jurisdiction in the British judicial system with an initial concern in the first instance and strange shadow cast over the idea of a Judge presiding over a case in a Magistrate Court. I felt his pain and understood his peculiar circumstance.A highly placed Nigerian Politician who is equally well read with a PHD tucked in nicely in his academic kitty and forming part of his long list of intellectual laurels, in all honestly and consideration shouldn't have been in this very messy situation that is sadly, fast turning into a Soap Opera.I put the blame squarely on the Nigerian State and its culture and tradition which is usually immersed in secrecy and conjured mysteries.This issue/matter could have been handled with much finesse given his ...

  BORIS JOHNSON.... IN A CIRCUS,DOWNFALL OF A MAVERICK AND THEATRICAL POLITICIAN  I have always been tempted to describe Boris Johnson as a cat with nine lives but on each occasion refrained or stop short of doing so for some inexplicable reason,call it gut,instinct,spiritual or not just sitting well with me or in my psyche as it were,truth is that I never got round to describing him as such,either in my private and back channel discussions,in an open forum or in any of my write ups-I never considered it a worthy subject to be delved into or analysed before now. Now looking back that he is just a sitting duck at No 10 waiting for the ceremony and procedures that would ease him out of office to the relief of many within the United Kingdom and globally,It dawned on me that it was all because I found his so called "heroics" as down to theatrics and its difficult for me to be engaged in the theatrical,especially that emanating or associated with one that should been hitherto view...