Beauty Personified! – Adewale Sobowale
I love beautiful people. You may be shocked by which aspect of beauty I’m referring to. Bet most of our minds are fixated on facial beauty. However, I want us to recall a remark which most of us, at one point or the other, must have heard. ‘Beautiful!’ This is a remark made, not to…
I’m Sillily Sick! – Adewale Sobowale
People have been telling me I’m nuts. But I hardly believed them. However, it took my being locked out to realize I’m sillilly sick. I was attending to some duty where I didn’t need to take my pen and notebook along. When I finished there, I just had to go home for one reason or…
Canadians call for ban on US ambassador in latest trade war salvo
Photo credit: Yahoo News More than 80,000 Canadians have signed onto a petition calling for the removal of US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, accusing him of “undermining” relations between the two countries and having ties to a separatist movement. The Independent reports that the petition campaign seeks to have Hoekstra, a former ambassador to the Netherlands and…
Burnham says every community must host migrants
Photo credit: BBC The UK’s new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has told middle-class communities in Britain that they must “play their part” in accommodating asylum seekers, as the country faces a spiralling migration crisis and mounting pressure over the use of hotels and privately rented homes. Human Events reports that the Prime Minister refused to rule…
South Africa seeking “reimbursement” for R300m spent on repatriations
The South African government is seeking reimbursements from the governments of Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia for costs incurred in repatriating their nationals. Jacaranda FM reports that the reparations came amid a campaign by fringe anti-foreigner groups, which had set June 30 as an unofficial deadline for undocumented migrants to leave. The Border Management Authority has revealed…
Ominous Times! – Adewale Sobowale
These, definitely, are not the best of times in Nigeria. We are surely going back to the Hobbesian state. Murders are more than rampant now. Kidnappers have been let loose watching to steal fellow humans. Primitive rituals are the order of the day now. The Yahoo boys are yet to repent. The boko haram crisis…