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This rare moment.

"Fools die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once, of the wonders I yet have heard it seems most strange to me that men should fear, seeing that death a necessary end will come when it will come" - William Shakespeare. It will be a mortal sin to ignore or downplay an act of heroism that has recently been demonstrated in this present time. These days, acts of heroism are left for actors, admired on the theatre screen in a Marvel action movie, but this particular event cannot go unsaid. Napoleon said " The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.” I  would like to turn our attention, in a standing ovation, to the recent activities of youth in the person of David Adeleke (a.k.a. Davido). He has transcended his status as merely a music artist, adding to it echelons of patriotism, activism, and heroism. Quite recently the Nigerian Senate passed a 'Not too young to