Author: Deji Okegbile

When gallantry and devotion to duty displayed by officers like late Colonel Adetunji Gabriel Ajayi, an Ijesha-born infantry officer failed to reflect great credit upon them and exemplify the high traditions of the Nigerian military service, it suggests a failed nation. Colonel Ajayi, a notable old student of Atakumosa High School, Osu, Osun Sate, under the tutelage of the late Chief Adebayo Adefarati ‘fell into a state constructed trap and evil plan,’ was ‘arrested with maximum force, charged with maximum offence and locked up in what one could term maximum security prison,’ for the crime he did not commit....

“In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations” – Antonio Guterres. “You can take the man out of the U.N., but you can’t take the U.N. out of the man” – Kofi Atta Annan The death of Kofi Atta Annan, a charismatic global statesman, diplomat and the first black African to become United Nations Secretary General early Saturday 18th August at 80, a date and month that marks the 500th Anniversary of the birth of the Africa to America transatlantic slave trade is a message to the world. The significance of the slavery tragic event resonates with the...