In the past few weeks since the voluntary retirement of the immediate past military service chiefs, the nation’s rumour Mills have swirled with all kinds
Femi Fani-Kayode: Nigeria; no retreat, no surrender, no plan b
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“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
“To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better,
Than facing fearful odds,
And the temples of his gods,
“And for the tender mother,
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses,
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens,
Who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus,
That wrought the deed of shame?
“Haul down the bridge, Sir Consul,
With all the speed ye may;