Save for the parked cars, it did not seem as if anything was happening there. I had to ask some guy who probably came to enjoy the fresh air outside if that was number sixty – five. Taking him for a security man, my voice was rather condescending, or so I thought. But on questioning…
Turning Social Media to an Exhibition Space. You may be carrying your most accessible gallery in your pocket. No rent. No security guard. No opening hours. No geographical address. People in Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, London, New York and Tokyo can enter it within seconds. It is your phone. Yet many artists use this extraordinary instrument…
Photo credit: Citynews National Defence Minister David McGuinty says the United States’ deal to boost its military presence in Greenland while keeping the island under Danish control is “encouraging.” Global News reports that US President Donald Trump said Friday he has a deal with Denmark after months of threatening to take the island by force…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed Yemen’s Houth i rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in the Iran war. The Associated Press reports that the Saudi authorities said the attack…
Photo credit: the Jerusalem Post A hundred-meter-long shroud with the handwritten names of more than 20,000 Palestinian children was put on display at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York, Ynet reported on Friday. The Jerusalem Post reports that the exhibition called “The Shroud of the Children of Gaza,” was organized by a coalition of…
NEPA used to be Nigeria’s electric supply monopoly before we started having the Power Holding Companies. I understand Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Mr Joseph Tegbe, said some Nigerians are asking him to slow down the so-called improvements in electric supply because their freezers are over freezing. If that’s true, even at 18 hours per day,…
There’s a common saying, at least in Nigeria, that when a matter has gone beyond crying one should laugh! So, is the case of thieves actually making their ways into a police station in Ebute Meta, Nigeria and stealing a television set. Haba! Let’s look at it in the proper perspective. A police station is…
