Photo credit: CTV News A temporary ban on Iranian pistachio and pistachio products has been announced by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency amid a Salmonella outbreak in Canada. The Toronto Star reports that the CFIA announced the restraints on Saturday as part of an ongoing investigation into the nuts and related products after over 100 people across…
Photo credit: Global News The world’s highest bridge opened to traffic in China on September 28, according to state media. The Straits Media reports that it has achieved an engineering feat three years in the making, surpassing the record held by another bridge in the same province. The Huajing Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625m above a river and…
The novel, ‘Cry the Beloved Country’ was written by Allan Paton in 1948 just before the inhumane apartheid policy was introduced in South Africa. I should think a quote from chapter 12 of the book is eminently relevant to our present situation in Nigeria. ‘ Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is…
You see when a person has been immersed in series of problems and he doesn’t know what to do again, one could safely say they’ve been infested with, ‘problemses’. Such people are accidents waiting to happen. Unfortunately, the more they think negatively about their so called problems, the more other problems besiege them. However, if…
Photo credit: CNN Predictably, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told world leaders on Friday that his nation “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza. Asharq Al-Awsat reports that he agave a defiant speech despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating civil war. According to him, “Western leaders may have buckled under…
Photo credit: VOA A resolution to extend sanctions relief to Iran under a 2015 nuclear deal failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Friday. China and Russia had tabled the draft and it received four votes in favour, nine against and two abstentions. It sought to extend the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) for six months, as well…
Photo credit: Bermama The death toll from floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Thailand rose to seven, according to authorities on September 27. The Straits Times reports that over 260,000 people across several provinces along the Chao Phraya river were impacted by flooding this week, according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation….
