IN the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends”-Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King uttered the above statement at the peak of frustrations with many blacks not speaking up against segregation against blacks in racial America. You can guess what your enemies would say any time but the silence of your friends could be more troubling than it. If MLK could put such weight on the muteness of friends in the 60s, you can then imagine the impact of the poisonous words of our own friends in 2019. When I saw…
Author: Yinka Odumakin
I have been reading and comprehending newspapers now for over 43 years and not once have I have seen an Obituary placed by a Fulani person. It is a little point that says a lot about what troubles Nigeria. When all the Balarabe Musas, Junaid Mohammeds and their likes rolled out recently on why the West must not be allowed to protect itself through Amotekun, you were tempted to check if any of them ever commiserated with the victims of killings by “their boys” all over the South and Middle Belt and it would occur to you that it was…
