A nation is concluding its national elections today. The activities in the country can’t but remind me of Nigerian elections. Even before a particular election ends, career politicians are already planning for the next elections. In the elections that are being concluded in Nigeria, meanwhile, a lot of resources would have been committed. Most of…
Photo credit: ABC News US President Donald Trump invoked violent unrest in France to attack Democrats and rally support for Republican Senator Roger Marshall in Kansas, warning that similar scenes could unfold in the United States if his political opponents prevail in the November 3 midterm elections. The Times of India reports that Trump had earlier claimed…
Photo credit: UN News Conflict and drought are worsening food insecurity across parts of Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, a global food crisis monitor warned on Monday. The Associated Press reports that, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a “deteriorating humanitarian situation” exists across greater Darfur and Kordofan, including areas identified as at…
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has been forced to cut its monthly food aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where some two-thirds of the population are struggling to get food, the agency said on Monday. The WFP said it was reducing the number of people receiving aid from 1.6 million to 1.1 million,…
It is not until you loose them that you appreciate them. I am already feeling the pain of your needless loss. But all is well, even in the well! I wanted to selfishly believe that, after a long battle with infirmity, you’d gone home to rest. Selfish, because I wouldn’t have to be bothered again….
I wonder what civil servants in my state want the government to do for them again. I really do wonder! When the government came on board, it promised so many goodies and it has delivered them. It went out of its way to even do much more! Let me start from the education sector, both…
Some days ago, it was reported that a media aide to Nigeria’s president, in his uncommon wisdom declared Buhari to be the best thing to have ever happened to Nigeria. According to sources, he even mentioned some nationalists who, according to him, Buhari was better than. While some felt the media aide must be on…
