Photo credit: Radio Canada Canada lost 68,000 jobs in September, according to Statistics Canada, marking a second straight month of losses. CBC News reports that the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 6.5 per cent, the same level it was at the start of the year. The figure bucked economists’ predictions of a 9,200-job gain…
Photo credit: TVS A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Panama, the latest strong tremor after a 7.7 quake struck the country a day earlier, local media reported on Saturday. Shafaq News reports that the country’s emergency operations chief Rene Garcia said no deaths were immediately reported, while at least two people were injured in the earllier earthquake. Seismo…
Photo credit: Daily Mail Restoring Indigenous cultural burning could help break a “catastrophic fire loop” plaguing Australia’s southeast forests, a new study has found. Researchers reconstructed the past millennium of vegetation, fire and erosion in Victoria’s Croajingolong National Park in East Gippsland, one of the country’s most fire-prone forests. The study, published on Thursday by the University…
The Oyinbo world is an odd one. But since you’ll agree with me that our own world is babanla weird, grandfather of weird, then maybe we should settle and declare that the Oyinbo world is positively odder. But mark you, we have to define what we mean by Oyinbo world. It is the world where…
There’s a popular English saying which is, ‘six and half a dozen’. It’s used to describe an insignificant change. The former ruling party in Nigeria, the People’s Democratic Party is using a former vice president of the federation, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, as its presidential flag bearer in the 2019 elections. The man, Atiku has been…
God give us men!A time like this demands strong mindsGreat hearts, true faith and ready hands,Men whom the lust of office does not kill,Men whom the spoils of office can not buy;Men who possess opinions and a will,Men who have honor, who will not lie,Men who can stand before a demagogueAnd damn his treacherous feathers…
There’s this gist about a guy who had a pint too many. In his drunken state, he wanted to take a leak. Our guy was decent enough to look for the bathrooms. Unfortunately for him, the bathrooms were two. On the wall separating the two, a sign was posted. Obinrin – FemaleOkunrin – MaleOur friend…
