Photo credit: BBC Could you believe there’s a place in Sudan where it’s almost possible to forget that a devastating war is going on? Welcome to Jebel Marra mountains, where wrapped in bright colours and wearing in plastic sandals, women set off each morning on donkeys with children in tow to tend the fields. The BBC reports that…
Photo credit: Facebook We should congratulate the Attah of Igala on the occasion of the delivery of a brand new Rolls Royce Phantom bought for him by the Kogi State governor, Yayah Bello. To show that the governor has taste and to show his reverence for royalty, the car is white. This is a governor…
Photo credit: People’s Gazzette It’s always better to think about the consequences of actions before taking them. The case in reference is the Lekki massacre of peaceful protesters. The act resulted in the death and maiming of Nigerian youths. They were neither killed nor injured by a foreign army. The crime was committed by an…
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…
