International Widows’ Day was marked two days ago, on the 23rd of June. But a widow’s dignity was never meant to be a one-day concern, and the way a family treats its widows says more about that family than any tradition it claims to keep. When I wrote Beyond the Goat Pen, I did not […]
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Father’s Day 2026 falls on Sunday, 21 June, and across the globe many families will pause to say thank you. But behind every card and every hug is a story; we rarely tell the story of what fatherhood costs and how quietly most fathers pay it. The battles they fight in silence Many fathers carry
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Refugee Week 2026 runs from 15 to 21 June, and this year it asks something of us all. The theme is Courage and it lands in a year when courage is in desperately short supply. As we mark the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the agreement that promised the displaced protection and dignity,
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Today, Nigeria marks Children’s Day. Across the country, schools that are still open will sing, children will be dressed in their finest, and speeches will be made about “the leaders of tomorrow. ” And somewhere — in Oriire, in Maga, in Papiri, in places we may never name — there are children who will not
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By Latifah Ajetunmobi This Monday, 25 May 2026, the world marks Africa Day—63 years since our founding fathers signed the Organisation of African Unity into existence in Addis Ababa in 1963. Sixty-three years of unity, integration, and development. Sixty-three years of a continent still rising, still healing, still teaching the world what resilience looks like.
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Today, the world marks the International Day of the Boy Child. We celebrate boys. We also confront the quiet crisis they face. Our sons are scrolling more. Talking less. Struggling silently. As a parent-teen coach and former mental health nurse, I see it every week. This day matters. Here’s why — and what you can
There is a title that changes everything. It is not a job title. It is not an academic qualification. However, it is the one whispered in delivery rooms, earned in sleepless nights, and carried for a lifetime—Mother. The moment a woman becomes a mother, she is transformed. This transformation is physiological, mental, and social. Nothing
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