We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Shareby Simon Kolawole
A young Nigerian boy, named Farouk, went to the UK to study engineering. The chap started attending mosques where radical preachers, rather than concentrate on propagating Islam and exhorting Muslims to love their neighbours, spend most of the time denouncing the West and the Great Satan (commonly known as the US). UK did [...]

January 10, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Simon Kolawole  Comments

My Heart Goes out to Farouk

Shareby Simon Kolawole
Let’s briefly discuss the story of a young, independent boy with religious zeal and a fertile mind, delicately torn between the two worlds of extremism and liberalism. No, I’m not talking about Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab. I’m talking about myself. I embraced the Christian faith at the age of 20 during my national youth [...]

January 4, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments

Farouk: Terrorist? No! Misguided? Yes!!

ShareBy Dele Sobowale
I started reading Nigerian newspapers in 1953 —mostly those absolutely delightful cartoon/advertisements by Nigerian Breweries featuring Sammy Sparkle. Who in our generation can forget that mischievous character who popped up almost every where to stop a train; to stop a fight, etc, and the punch line —“I did says Sammy Sparkle; its time [...]

January 4, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Daele Sobowale  Comments

Mutallab: We Are Guilty By Association

ShareBy Reuben Abati
Nigerians were not favourite air travellers before the Christmas Day Flight 253 bomb scare incident involving our 23-year old compatriot Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: the rest of the world looked upon Nigerians as potential crooks (even if there are more crooks in Italy and Russia). We were accused of being too noisy and aggressive [...]

January 3, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Reuben Abati  Comments


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