Photo credit: Jamaica gleaner Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a Category 4 storm as it churned northwest through the Caribbean Sea on Sunday. It is taking a direct aim at Jamaica, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Centre (NHC). Meanwhile, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is sending a shipment of relief items…
Photo credit: Jakarta Globe Malaysia has sent home 90 Indonesian migrant workers over the weekend. Jakarta Globe reports that Malaysian authorities claimed they violated work and residency permits. Fanny Wahyu Kumiawan, head of the Riau Office of the Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection Agency (BP3MI), the deportees included 60 men and 30 women, along with two children. The largest…
As you stroll leisurely along Carlton Street to the church on Sunday, you may have noticed these numbers etched into the Credit Valley Stone. They are about two paces east from where the garden fence and the wall meet. They are not secret codes to treasure although treasure may lie inside. Rather they are the…
Photo credit: Pennews There have been talks about an allegation made by an American senator criticizing the Nigerian authorities of enabling a “massacre” against Christians. The Nigerian authorities have been lavish in their denial of an obvious truth. They claim it’s not only Christians being killed, Muslims are also murdered. They have conveniently forgotten Traditionalists or even…
Photo credit: ABC News We feel with the American and Israeli peoples the pains they are going through. Earlier today, eleven people were murdered and six injured in a synagogue at Pittsburgh, U.S. Apparently, it was an anti Semitic attack! Personally, I really wouldn’t know what anyone would achieve through the killing of another human…
Isn’t it sad the way things are turning in our society? So, one cannot even leave children in another’s care again! I’m talking of the lecherous elements in human skin, paedophiles. The African traditional system is so structured that we normally say, only one person produces a child but everyone looks after the child. But…
Photo credit: Premium Times We should be grateful to Winners’ Chapel under the (sole?) proprietorship of Mr Oyedepo for attempting to win Lagos and Ogun roads from disrepair. I think he deserves a round of applause. The winners have put to lie the Yoruba proverb which says, ‘It can’t be so bad for a father…
