Photo credit: STV News Working with humanity and welcoming everyone who crosses the Mediterranean: These are principles guiding the Italian Red Cross, which officially took over the management of the Contrada Imbriacola hotspot in Lampedusa on 1 June 2023. Since then, more than 182,000 migrants have passed through the centre after crossings that are often fatal. It remains the…
Some months ago, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) turned 50 and people wanted to set the internet ablaze with their experience. Some went on to dust their service year pictures and were displaying them on social media. For those of us who never had an opportunity to serve as Youth Corp members, it was…
The senator who, I don’t want to dignify by mentioning his name, assaulted a woman has come out with some defence. According to him, his younger sister was beaten to a pulp earlier in that shop. Hear, hear! He even said that incident happened before he became a senator. It’s one thing to act and…
I was gisting with a pastor of one of the popular Pentecostal churches yesterday, and I was surprised with how little he knows about the most basic of things. For instance, he did not know the procedure of Islamic banking. That is, the bank does not discriminate on religious basis. I actually had to tell…
Photo credit: CBC Mahak Bhateja says Canada’s culture helped her adjust to her new home after she moved from India. CBC News reports that the Toronto resident said, “One thing I really like about this country is the people are very welcoming and they were very supportive.” Bhateja’s experience is backed by the findings of…
Photo credit: Yahoo News A mob set fire to an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving one police officer dead and two people injured, officials said. DPA International reports that several Ebola patients, along with individuals showing symptoms of the life-threatening virus, fled the treatment centre in the village of Bafwabango in Ituri province, Joseph…
Yasus Afari was born in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica as John Sinclair. He was a childhood friend of Garnett Silk with whom he collaborated on many best-selling recordings. He attended St Elizabeth Technical High School, and worked as a repair technician for the Jamaican telephone company before returning to school after receiving a scholarship to…
