Have you ever been in a situation where you felt so down that you could not imagine ever bouncing back from your situation? It’s like you’ve suddenly been hit by a car and thrown into a deep and dark hole, but without being fortunate enough to die and therefore be painless.

People worry all the time about the things they have control over as much as the things that they do not have control over. The irony is that worrying in both cases is useless.

The last couple of weeks were times of graduations from public and private universities all over the country. Those of you who live in Addis might have been caught in a dense traffic of graduates around millennium hall in Bole.

I heard that there are people who make a business opportunity out of the laziness of students. Maybe you have also heard of these guys.

Many of you might have heard about a guy named Samuel Zemikael who, few years back, was arrested for defrauding people and the media by claiming that his has a PhD degree and other degrees from local and foreign universities, that he is a successful businessman, and that he also got the chance to brush shoulders with renown politicians such as the Russian president Vladimir Putin. He held several interviews with the media claiming the title of ‘Dr Engineer’ and had the chance to make public lectures.

Summertime is here, and school is over. For most of us, I believe that this is the childhood time that remains in our memories as we get older.

I have always considered myself to be a person who would like to do favors to others.

Power blackout and then internet shut down. Do you ever wonder, ‘how long is this going to keep going on?’. Are these the only way out to our problems?

Remittances sent from abroad significantly contribute to the replenishment of the much-depleted foreign currency reserves of the country.

They say never judge a book by its cover because a book is much more than its cover. I agree with this statement but also disagree with it at the same time.