Ferdnand Osuagwu MD December 19, 2020 Since the development of a vaccine for Covid-19, reports indicate that many are worried and skeptical about its efficacy and motive behind the quick production. Based on recent surveys, there remains a section… Read More ›
Hospitality
What Is In a Beard?
Kayode Omotade June 22, 2020 I grew up watching in deep fascination as my father performed the early Saturday fetish of beard and moustache trimming. The clicking sound of his scissors, comb intermittently gauging the measurement of both beard… Read More ›
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE WELCOMES ACTIVIST: WHEN #BlackLivesMatter IN AMERICA
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE October 9, 2015 The entire nation is familiar with the slogan #BlackLivesMatter, the activist movement that prides itself in promoting social justice, ending police brutality and racial intolerance. For those unfamiliar, the group came to existence in the… Read More ›
BIKERS ARE NICE AND NOT WHAT YOU THINK
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE July 12, 2015 This week, Bikers from all over the country descended on Gettysburg, a historic town known as the site of the American Civil War and the place, where Abraham Lincoln delivered his immortal Gettysburg Address. The… Read More ›
EBOLA AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF FEAR
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE October 13, 2014 No one is hardest hit by the impact of Ebola than the families who lost loved ones to the deadly virus. One of such people is Decontee Kofa of the Kofa Foundation. Her husband, Patrick… Read More ›
ORIGIN OF THE “BRAIN DEATH” PHENOMENON: DEFINING DEATH IN THE ERA OF SCHIAVO AND McMATH
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE January 13, 2014 With the recent case of Jahi McMath a 13-year-old, declared brain-dead by the Children Hospital & Research Center Oakland, defining death has become a more difficult phenomenon. The battle on whether life support be removed,… Read More ›
MARGARET THATCHER, DEATH OF A FEARLESS POLITICIAN
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE April 8, 2013 Known worldwide as the Iron Lady, former British Prime Minister Margaret Hilda Thatcher has died at the age of 87, according to news reports, based on a release by her family. Thatcher was… Read More ›
BLOOMBERG, VOWS NY WILL CHALLENGE RULING ON SUGARY DRINK
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE March 11, 2013 Mayor Michael Bloomberg, wants to save the City from obesity, a disease that plagues New York, making it impossible to avert health risks associated with fat. To do so, he went to court and… Read More ›
POPE BENEDICT STEPS DOWN, FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE February 12, 2013 Eight years after he was chosen as head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict the XVI resigns from his position as leader of the Church. His decision to step down came as a… Read More ›
GUTTED AND HEARTBROKEN, DJs LAMENT OVER ROYAL NURSE SUICIDE
BY ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE Gutted, Saddened and heartbroken were the words used by the DJs at the center of the royal nurse suicide to describe their feelings, since learning of her death. Mel Greig shed tears as she described her shock… Read More ›