Those posters, which showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer accompanied by the straightforward tagline of “I want you for U.S. Army,” cemented the symbol’s place in U.S. history.

If you’re driving through Danbury, Connecticut, don’t be surprised if a 38-foot-tall man in red, white, and blue catches your ...

Rally in most major indices across Europe and the US paused yesterday, as Trump-driven optimism began to sour under the rocky ...

Uncle Sam @ 90: The magic of singularity principle By LOUIS ODION The offer was irresistible. “Louis, I know you must be tired of hotel food by now,” he teased with a patriarchal grin.

At 90, I don’t know what to wish Uncle Sam. Six years ago, when his friend, Chief Osoba turned 80, he told him to prepare to die for he could not receive the type of accolades that greeted his ...

From ‘Offbeat Sam’ to ‘Sad Sam’ Uncle Sam made his name at the Daily Times, but his journalism career did not start there. According to Ben Lawrence, in an article entitled “An artiste ...

Uncle Sam made his name at the Daily Times, but his journalism career did not start there. According to Ben Lawrence, in an article entitled “An artiste and a builder,” published in Voices ...

Uncle Sam’s daughter, Omasan Dudu, told me he is a good swimmer and, until recently, maintained a personal yoga coach. “He still goes to the office every Monday and takes his exercises ...

A White House Newsletter of March 4, 2025, showed how the current Uncle Sam views immigrants: “President Donald J. Trump has launched the largest criminal illegal immigrant deportation operation ...

Uncle Sam’s mother died at 109. Apart from his older brother, Oritsedere, who passed in 2002, the other three from the same mother are still alive, and the youngest is a woman, Amanaghan, 76.

Uncle Sam edited the Sunday Times between 1967 and 1971 before going on to co-found Punch newspaper with the late Chief Olu Aboderin. He left a few years later to start Vanguard, a paper which he ...

Uncle Sam, for instance, may not be a table banging or fist clenching social crusader. But in a rare fearless and principled stance he left no one in doubt that if the media is chained, the ...