Photo credit: NBC News More than 500 people are feared dead after reports that two boats carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority have capsized in the Bay of Bengal, officials said Thursday. AP reports that, according to preliminary information, the two boats left Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in late June carrying mostly Rohingya passengers, including…
The United States intensified its strikes targeting Iran early Thursday, hitting targets further north as American forces also fired into a ship it accused of trying to break its naval blockade on the Islamic Republic. Meanwhile, Iran retaliated with missile and drone fire targeting Bahrain and Kuwait before dawn. AP reports that days of back-and-forth strikes by the US and…
Photo credit: Toronto Today Members of the tenant advocacy group ACORN gathered downtown on Wednesday to demand action against extreme heat from the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) – an Ontario crown corporation in charge of the province’s power grid. Toronto Today reports that twelve members of ACORN’s chapter met at noon on the northeast corner of University…
The team that lifts the World Cup trophy next week won’t just have their name etched into football history – they’ll be flush with cash. SBS News reports that FIFA increased the financial distributions at this year’s World Cup to a record $1.25 billion, making it the largest prize pool in the competition’s history. About $938 million…
Unless it does a rethink, the federal government is likely to stop the production of Nigerian films and music videos outside our shores. That is a very good development. Whatever scenes artistes may want to use abroad could always be simulated here. If you want a scene of the American red light districts you could…
When scouting for a job in a foreign land, so many things come into play. The first one is that even if you have a triple doctorate, they would always want you to have their own countries’ certification. In any case, most western countries hold whatever certifications are issued by third world countries with a…
It was widely reported that a couple of representatives of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Abuja Chapter, went to show solidarity for the controversial founder of COZA, Biodun Fatoyinbo. Hmm… I just thought I should ask those at the control of Abuja CAN whether they had bothered to make even an iota of enquiries into…
