Photo credit: Multidox Kizito Egeonu must have graduated from the University of Jos. He was a 400 level medical student in 2009. That year must have been a happy one for him, too. That was when he won the unbelievable sum of a million dollars in a promo. I didn’t say a million naira. He…
Photo credit: Premium Times There are some really thoughtful sayings in the English language that will make a person think that maybe the English borrowed them from the ever beautiful Yoruba language. One of them is cutting off the nose to spite the face. It is described as an axpression to needlessly self-destructive over reaction…
Photo credit: Daily Post Not less than 29 people were killed in Gaza and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced people outside a school in southern Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday’s strike it next to the gate of al-Awda school in the town of Abasan…
Photo credit: Channels TV Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have broken away from the 15-member regional bloc, ECOWAS. The New York Times reports that the bloc has long ensured the free movement of people and goods among its tightly knit economies. By their actions, the three countries have further destabilized an area home to four…
Photo credit: BOL News At least 40 people have been held in Italy over migrant visa fraud. Reuters reports that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had complained weeks ago that mafia groups were exploiting the system for profit. The 44 people apprehended included 13 in jail, 24 under house arrest and seven in custody. They were…
Photo credit: the Punch There’s a Yoruba saying that goes with these times. ‘Kekere n’imale ti nko omo e l’aso’. I’m sure those who have been reading me will long have realised that I don’t have any religious bias. I’m saying that just in case some are feeling threatened. The meaning of the saying is…
