By Morak Babajide-Alabi It is a new year and the start of a new decade. It is the first month of the New Year. The beginning of the year is when some of us think we should set priorities, goals and equally make resolutions. We identify the New Year as the start of another…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi This is the conclusion of the three-part compilation of my views and opinions on events in 2019. It was a bit challenging getting them together for a compact presentation, especially with the recent world events. Last year was quite significant in the history of the last decade. As a result, I tried…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi Continued from last week When Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced her planned resignation for June 7, last year, it did not come as a surprise. The world had waited for three years to hear this. May took over the leadership of the Conservative Party in July 2016. At…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi The year 2019 is rolling to an end. In a few days, we will be celebrating the end of a decade that has been full of notable events. Some of the events will go down in history books as landmarks. It has been a decade when unthinkable developments took place. It will be…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi UPDATED December 21, 2109: The news that a financial settlement had been allegedly brokered between the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and the many women who accused him of rape and sexual molestation broke last week. This development didn’t take many by surprise. But what shocked several is the fact that…
by Morak Babajide-Alabi The United Kingdom’s 2019 General Election is won and lost. As the results came in, the victorious party became more raucous in celebration. The clever ones among the losers are already laying out strategies on how to win the next election. The results may have come as a surprise to political amateurs,…
by Morak Babajide-Alabi Today, the British people (and all Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK) go to the polls to elect new representatives and also a Prime Minister to steer their affairs for the next five years. It is an election called by the incumbent Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to break the deadlock from the…
by Morak Babajide-Alabi Continued from last week. The taxi finally rolled to a stop. The driver turned around. With a broad smile, he said: “We don reach o (meaning: We have gotten to the destination.)” I ignored him, as I did not want him to interrupt my trail of thoughts for a few minutes. I…
by Morak Babajide-Alabi “To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see, all this is nothing but to perceive,” by David Hume. I shifted on the sofa, stretched out my legs and adjusted my head to allow a clear breathing passage. I have a few more minutes to waste before I start the arduous…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi You imagine your associations. Those people you closely connect with… the conversations you have… all profoundly influence your thinking and actions. You slowly become the sum of the people closest to you. Choose them wisely…” by Adeila Akoo. There is no better advice for Prince Andrew than this offered in the quote…
by Morak Babajide-Alabi “To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see, all this is nothing but to perceive,” by David Hume. I shifted on the sofa, stretched out my legs and adjusted my head to allow a clear breathing passage. I have a few more minutes to waste before I start the arduous…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi You imagine your associations. Those people you closely connect with… the conversations you have… all profoundly influence your thinking and actions. You slowly become the sum of the people closest to you. Choose them wisely…” by Adeila Akoo. There is no better advice for Prince Andrew than this offered in the quote…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi Last week some parts of the United Kingdom’s witnessed torrential rainfall which brought hardships to the people. Day after day and night after night the heavens opened up and released rain equivalent of what the country could have witnessed probably in a month. Dubbed the “biblical rain”, it caused many disruptions on…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi The British politics took a turn last week when the political parties, for once, spoke in unison and dramatically agreed to a snap general election in December. What is surprising about the sudden turn around is that 24 hours earlier the opposition parties had unanimously rejected Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister’s call…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi “We are in the end times,” my friend screamed down the end of the phone. I was alarmed by his tone and the fact that he could not offer a simple “hello” when I connected to him. He is not one to forget his manners, and this made me wonder what could…
by Morak Babajide-Alabi In a few days, Nigeria would be marking her 59th independence anniversary. It is indeed a time for celebrations as fifty-nine years in the life of a human being is not an easy feat, talk less of a country. This is symbolic, especially for a country that has been through many events…
By Morak Babajide-Alabi The chances of Jo Swinson, the leader of the United Kingdom’s Liberal Democrat occupying 10 Downing Street in the nearest future are very slim. She is, for now, a long shot at the post of the Prime Minister, but not because she does not have the qualities or capabilities. No. She comes…
by Morak Babajide-Alabi Two Fridays ago, the final curtains closed in on the former strongman of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. We woke up to the news of his passing away at a Singaporean hospital, thousands of miles away from Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. There is no pretence that his death was a shock or…
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