Tag: History

AI generated image showing a cemetery to mark the 2026 Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance Day
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January 15: Blood Calls unto Blood

Jilomes

I was going to write this article early on 15 January 2025 to be able to post it in good time during the day, but here I am close to midnight, driven by a commitment to put down my thoughts even if it means the article comes a day late. But January 15 is not about me. It is about remembering thousands of Nigerian citizens, brothers and sisters in arms, who have served in the military whether by choice or compulsion, and have paid the supreme price. To these comrades, we remain eternally grateful because their blood is the currency that allows us to live our own lives the way we want.

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Change, Politics

Who Made It Anathema to Move On?

Jilomes

The only time a competitive swimmer can benefit from having a weight attached is during training when strength is being enhanced. Beyond that time, any swimmer who chooses to compete with a weight attached, except where the competitors are neonates, would have to be content with negotiating the terms for the last place, or if the weight were weighty enough, risk injury or even drowning. As physicists would say, such person would have a lot of displaced water from flapping arms but hardly any directional displacement. This seems to be the condition of the African community.

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The Unseen Burden of History

Jilomes

It was Laura Linney who described history as “a resource”, but many times, we gloss over history as some unplugged cousin that we have been forced to babysit, whereas we should be mining it for information. Sitting through a Zoom lecture, I just had an epiphany that hit me hard enough to get my laptop and start tapping in rhythm to the fresh insight coasting through my neurones.

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