This is the season when the challenged, in various manners, are remembered. The old, the invalid, the motherless which includes the fatherless, could be lucky to be remembered. However, I’m looking at it from another angle. Let’s assume that each of them gets a ram, a bag of rice and four litres of cooking oil….
Photo credit: The Cable There’s this news of Mr Buhari going to inspect his herd of cattle while refusing to visit the school or the parents of the boys who had been kidnapped in HIS state. I wonder what the problem of journalists are. After all, the president had sent a high ranking official to…
Photo credit: Rolling Stone These are certainly interesting times as the United States President Donald Trump has sued the BBC for defamation over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the US Capitol. His action has opened an international front in his fight against media coverage he deems…
Photo credit: Shalee global Traditionally, a major source of outbound students to Asia-Pacific countries, Malaysia is now seeking to reverse that trend through new government and institutional initiatives aimed at attracting more international students in the region through streamlined, shorter admissions and approval processes. University World News reports that Malaysia’s Deputy Higher Education Minister, Mustapha Sakmud, told…
Photo credit: CTV News The World Happiness Report says Canadians under 30 were the happiest age group in the country as recently as 2011. Toronto Today reports that they’re the unhappiest now. The 2024 edition of the decades-long study of global happiness, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, asked participants…
Photo credit: Toronto Star Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world by using British spelling in recent official documents. CTV News reports that in a recent letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, five linguistics experts and an editors association representative say the simplest way to keep national…
